ffmpeg Fails After MacPorts Migration to Catalina Version

[Michael Newman]

I’m not positive, but I believe it was built from source. This is what I got when I removed and reinstalled it:

MrMuscle:bin mnewman$ sudo port install ffmpeg
--->  Computing dependencies for ffmpeg
--->  Fetching archive for ffmpeg
--->  Attempting to fetch ffmpeg-4.2.1_2+gpl2.darwin_19.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/ffmpeg
--->  Attempting to fetch ffmpeg-4.2.1_2+gpl2.darwin_19.x86_64.tbz2 from http://cph.dk.packages.macports.org/ffmpeg
--->  Attempting to fetch ffmpeg-4.2.1_2+gpl2.darwin_19.x86_64.tbz2 from http://jog.id.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/ffmpeg
--->  Fetching distfiles for ffmpeg
--->  Verifying checksums for ffmpeg
--->  Extracting ffmpeg
--->  Applying patches to ffmpeg
--->  Configuring ffmpeg
--->  Building ffmpeg
--->  Staging ffmpeg into destroot
--->  Installing ffmpeg @4.2.1_2+gpl2
--->  Activating ffmpeg @4.2.1_2+gpl2
--->  Cleaning ffmpeg
--->  Updating database of binaries
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
--->  No broken files found.
--->  No broken ports found.


> On Dec 14, 2019, at 06:49, Andrew Udvare <audvare at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Dec 13, 2019, at 18:28, Michael Newman via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
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>> I’ve been using ffmpeg daily for several years to generate time lapse videos from a series of JPEGs.
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>> After I updated my 2017 iMac to Catalina, it still worked.
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>> However, after migrating MacPorts to the Catalina version, it fails:
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>> ./skyvideo.sh: line 38:  5438 Done                    cat $ipath
>>      5439 Segmentation fault: 11  | /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg -f image2pipe -framerate 10 -vcodec mjpeg -i - -vcodec libx264 -preset veryslow -hide_banner -loglevel panic -r 10 -crf 28 -y -pix_fmt yuv420p "$vfile" >> "$log"
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> Is this a premade binary or built from source? If it's a binary you should try building from source.
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> I'm not sure MacPorts provides a binary of ffmpeg.
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> Andrew