Animator on Mac OSX - bugs and glitches
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The Console Message:
Then it appears a OS X alert window:
"ffmpeg is a Unix application downloaded from internet, Do you want to open it?"
I push Abrir (Open) button.And then a terminal window:
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Oxer,
Many thanks. This message is ennoying however.
Could you try the following
ffmpeg = File.join(Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins"), "ffmpeg")
#same as beforecmd = "\"#{ffmpeg}\" -h"
system(cmd)
Thanks
Fredo
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Console Messages:
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Oxer,
Thanks for your support.
In release 1.0r, just published, I tried to fix the generation of video files on OSX.
Can you try and tell me if it works on your sideJust launch a video and then click on Preview Video after a few frames to see if you get the green triangles displayed.
Thanks
Fredo
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Hi Fredo,
The generation of the video files works right now.
But the Preview Video don't work because it appears an OS X error message window, there isn't application defined to open the URL. -
It's very rare, the .mp4 extension is associated in OS X to quicktime but for some reason the OS X don't recognize the extension or perhaps because the address has strange symbols in the URL ( %20 instead one space).
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Oxer,
Thanks. Good news.
For the Preview, I think I know what it is (filename should be prefixed by file://).Fredo
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hi Fredo,
my hard drive crashed, but I now have a new one and may be able to help on the mac side...
I used Homebrew to install the ffmpeg binary and if I test help
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder usage; ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}... Getting help; -h -- print basic options -h long -- print more options -h full -- print all options (including all format and codec specific options, very long) -h type=name -- print all options for the named decoder/encoder/demuxer/muxer/filter See man ffmpeg for detailed description of the options. Print help / information / capabilities; -L show license -h topic show help -? topic show help -help topic show help --help topic show help -version show version -buildconf show build configuration -formats show available formats -devices show available devices -codecs show available codecs -decoders show available decoders -encoders show available encoders -bsfs show available bit stream filters -protocols show available protocols -filters show available filters -pix_fmts show available pixel formats -layouts show standard channel layouts -sample_fmts show available audio sample formats -colors show available color names -opencl_bench run benchmark on all OpenCL devices and show results -sources device list sources of the input device -sinks device list sinks of the output device -hwaccels show available HW acceleration methods Global options (affect whole program instead of just one file; -loglevel loglevel set logging level -v loglevel set logging level -report generate a report -max_alloc bytes set maximum size of a single allocated block -opencl_options set OpenCL environment options -y overwrite output files -n never overwrite output files -ignore_unknown Ignore unknown stream types -stats print progress report during encoding -max_error_rate ratio of errors (0.0; no errors, 1.0; 100% error maximum error rate -bits_per_raw_sample number set the number of bits per raw sample -vol volume change audio volume (256=normal) Per-file main options; -f fmt force format -c codec codec name -codec codec codec name -pre preset preset name -map_metadata outfile[,metadata];infile[,metadata] set metadata information of outfile from infile -t duration record or transcode "duration" seconds of audio/video -to time_stop record or transcode stop time -fs limit_size set the limit file size in bytes -ss time_off set the start time offset -sseof time_off set the start time offset relative to EOF -seek_timestamp enable/disable seeking by timestamp with -ss -timestamp time set the recording timestamp ('now' to set the current time) -metadata string=string add metadata -program title=string;st=number... add program with specified streams -target type specify target file type ("vcd", "svcd", "dvd", "dv" or "dv50" with optional prefixes "pal-", "ntsc-" or "film-") -apad audio pad -frames number set the number of frames to output -filter filter_graph set stream filtergraph -filter_script filename read stream filtergraph description from a file -reinit_filter reinit filtergraph on input parameter changes -discard discard -disposition disposition Video options; -vframes number set the number of video frames to output -r rate set frame rate (Hz value, fraction or abbreviation) -s size set frame size (WxH or abbreviation) -aspect aspect set aspect ratio (4;3, 16;9 or 1.3333, 1.7777) -bits_per_raw_sample number set the number of bits per raw sample -vn disable video -vcodec codec force video codec ('copy' to copy stream) -timecode hh;mm;ss[;;.]ff set initial TimeCode value. -pass n select the pass number (1 to 3) -vf filter_graph set video filters -ab bitrate audio bitrate (please use -b;a) -b bitrate video bitrate (please use -b;v) -dn disable data Audio options; -aframes number set the number of audio frames to output -aq quality set audio quality (codec-specific) -ar rate set audio sampling rate (in Hz) -ac channels set number of audio channels -an disable audio -acodec codec force audio codec ('copy' to copy stream) -vol volume change audio volume (256=normal) -af filter_graph set audio filters Subtitle options; -s size set frame size (WxH or abbreviation) -sn disable subtitle -scodec codec force subtitle codec ('copy' to copy stream) -stag fourcc/tag force subtitle tag/fourcc -fix_sub_duration fix subtitles duration -canvas_size size set canvas size (WxH or abbreviation) -spre preset set the subtitle options to the indicated preset
and if I check the Liciense terms it returns...
ffmpeg is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ffmpeg is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with ffmpeg. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
john
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With the last version (Animator 1.0t) the Test Image and Preview Video work fine.
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I have a question about the process to save the Animator parameters, this is my process:
- I make a new movement in a new clip and then I save them (icon Save).
- I create the video, then I save all Animator parameters before exit of Animator plugin.
- When I return to the Animator plugin, the clip and movement previous saved is missing.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, there is a .animator file in the same directory like Sketchup but I can't recover the clip and movement saved.
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Did you set up the AutoSave option?
When you start Animator, does it pop up a dialog box about a backup file?
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Yes, I have Auto-Save checked (I began to translate the plugin to Spanish language).
@unknownuser said:
When you start Animator, does it pop up a dialog box about a backup file?
No, it appears a message "There is not clip defined, do you want to create one?"
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