How to make transcoding to work?

[crp]

(17-03-2014 10:26)simoncn Wrote:  

(17-03-2014 04:20)crp Wrote:  Greetings. I have been unable to get transcoding to work in latest versions of minimserver and minimstreamer, on Mac OSX 10.9.2.

I can't set stream.transcode to, for example alac:wav24 , until stream.converter is set. I downloaded a Mac 64bit binary of ffmpeg into my shell path in /usr/local/bin/ then set the stream.convert property to:

/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

I get an error diagnostic in the minim control dialog: "converter not supported: correct highlighted value and retry"

I have searched forum and user guides for where/how to install a converter, to no avail. What am I missing?

Charlie

Please do the following:

1) Make sure you are using the current MinimServer download for Mac OS X (MinimServer-0.8.1c-macosx.dmg)

2) Download the ffmpeg static binary for Mac OS X from this page and unzip it to the /usr/local/bin directory

3) In the stream.convert property, enter:

ffmpeg

Simon, thank you for your reply. That is the same web site I used previously. But, I downloaded the zip again, and there is a ffmeg in /usr/local/bin, with execute permissions. I must still be doing something dumb.

When I enter "ffmpeg" into the stream.converter, I get the error message "converter not installed".

If I enter "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg" into that property, I get the error message "converter not supported".

I am using the .dmg file you suggest, and it reports version 0.8.1, release 22.