The Blog of st373n

The avi code has advanced a bit this week and is now mostly complete, cropping scaling and bitrate changes are now functioning.

AVI code is now in the application at a very basic level and conversion of files to standard avi’s is now possible. The code needs some fine tuning to get all the advanced options in place. update is now available to download for 10.5 only!

This build of Filmredux now includes the universal mencoder, this should fix conversions for those of you on ppc & intel who were getting strange logs with base64 encoded text. The libx264 library is linked to this so a new support pack is up and will be downloaded by filmredux if needed. This build requires Mac OS 10.5 and is universal for ppc or intel.

One of the components behind Filmredux is mencoder and the version in the current build was for intel’s only, causing conversions to fail on non-intel mac’s. This has now been compiled as a universal binary and will be available in the next Filmredux release, if you just want the file for now to drop into the filmredux app its here.

The mkv problem was something that had been going on for a while – the quality slider was causing issues when converting a mkv file, setting it to anything other than lowest option caused a floating point exception, well finally changed the code to fix this issue. Now all quality levels are functional for any of the Apple devices. Use Check for updates to get this version.

In response to requests for 10.4 support, in the filmredux support package a release is now available that supports both 10.4 and 10.5 on ppc or Intel macs. If you have already got the support pack installed then you don’t need to download this as there are no changes to its contents other than building it as a Universal Binary of libfaac. If you need the universal build grab it here

Well have spent a few more hours on it tonight, have got some code in place pointing to dummy functions for the non working formats. Now it looks like im gonna be spending some time in the terminal compiling many different libraries for the formats.

A while back I packaged up a build of UnrealIRCd ( for someone at one of the mac forums ), an IRC server along with Anope Services for IRC. If anyone else would like the installer package to run their own IRC server on there mac at home here is the link. This version has only been tested on an Intel Mac with 10.5 – 10.5.6, dummy config files are included so just enter your own details and your set.

Well my time with filmredux is going well,. Have added the App Icon, put in a check for the library files with a window to auto download them if needed, Seems all the conversion to apple formats are working already the others need a bit of work. sparkle update has been uploaded so your versions will update to, (if your using my build of it) same link as before All my files are now signed with a self signed cert, so sparkle can verify them etc.

Well Visualhub has sadly departed but they released some open source code called FilmRedux.