Updating ffmpeg ...

[Richard L. Hamilton]

sh-3.2$ port installed ffmpeg
The following ports are currently installed:
  ffmpeg @4.0.2_1+gpl2+x11 (active)

sh-3.2$ type ffmpeg
ffmpeg is /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg

sh-3.2$ otool -L /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg | grep libx2
	/opt/local/lib/libx264.152.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
	/opt/local/lib/libx265.165.dylib (compatibility version 165.0.0, current version 165.0.0)

sh-3.2$ port provides /opt/local/lib/libx264.152.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libx264.152.dylib is provided by: x264
sh-3.2$ port installed x264
The following ports are currently installed:
  x264 @20171225_0 (active)

sh-3.2$ port provides /opt/local/lib/libx265.165.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libx265.165.dylib is provided by: x265
sh-3.2$ port installed x265
The following ports are currently installed:
  x265 @2.9_0 (active)



> On Oct 29, 2018, at 23:07, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So for what it's worth, after writing this out and going over what it takes, I have ffmpeg finally working:
> 
>  x264 @20171225_0 (active)
> 
>  x265 @2.8_1 (active)
>  x265 @2.9_0
> 
> Something has to be out of date, and at least this is the least out of date.
> 
> On 2018-10-29, at 7:47 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 29, 2018, at 21:26, Michael wrote:
>> 
>>> So two things when I attempted to update macports and ffmpeg.
>>> 
>>> Number 1: There was a HUGE chain of things to update first. Surprising to me was what looked like all of Xwindows.
>>> 
>>> XWindows? Why?
>>> 
>>> After X, it updated openssl, then sqlite3, then python select, then python, then more of X ... followed ultimately by graphite2.
>>> 
>>> But when all was done, ffmpeg fails. Again.
>>> 
>>> So, I went to the trac page, to try to find that bug report for ffmpeg that I saw in the past, that I thought I did a "me too" CC on.
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> I could not find it. Anywhere. This is the new trac bug system, as far as I can tell.
>>> 
>>> Ffmpeg's success rate for about 2 years has been zero. I will get some variation on:
>>> 
>>> bash-3.2# port activate ffmpeg @4.0.1_0+gpl2
>>> --->  Computing dependencies for ffmpeg
>>> --->  Deactivating ffmpeg @3.1.4_0+gpl2
>>> --->  Cleaning ffmpeg
>>> --->  Activating ffmpeg @4.0.1_0+gpl2
>>> --->  Cleaning ffmpeg
>>> --->  Some of the ports you installed have notes:
>>> ffmpeg has the following notes:
>>>  *******
>>>  ******* This build of ffmpeg includes GPLed code and
>>>  ******* is therefore licensed under GPL v2 or later.
>>>  *******
>>>  ******* The following modules are GPLed:
>>>  *******
>>>  *******      postproc
>>>  *******      libx264
>>>  *******      libx265
>>>  *******      libxvid
>>>  *******
>>>  ******* To include all nonfree, GPLed and LGPL code use variant +nonfree.
>>>  ******* To remove nonfree and GPLed code leaving only LGPL code remove the
>>>  ******* +gpl2 variant.
>>>  *******
>>> bash-3.2# ffmpeg
>>> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libx264.152.dylib
>>> Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg
>>> Reason: image not found
>>> Trace/BPT trap: 5
>>> bash-3.2# 
>>> 
>>> I was attempting to restore older versions to try to find the old one that used to work, but none of them did.
>>> 
>>> And I know I've reported this issue before.
>> 
>> Sorry to hear you're having problems with ffmpeg. I don't think others are experiencing problems.
>> 
>> You should not see "dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libx264.152.dylib" since that library is provided by the x264 port, on which ffmpeg does declare a dependency. If you are seeing that error, make sure that x264 is updated to the latest version, currently 20171225. You can check using "port installed x264".
>> 
>> And yes, the ffmpeg dependency chain does include some X11 ports. ffmpeg has an x11 variant which is not enabled by default, but some of ffmpeg's dependencies have x11 variants that are enabled by default. If you don't want to use X11, often you can ask MacPorts to use Quartz instead. If you want to do that, it's best to uninstall all ports first, then add "+quartz -x11" to variants.conf and reinstall the ports you want.
>> 
>> 
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