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Offline cdavid

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Blink Movie on Mac
« on: 2016 September 28 16:58:00 »
Hi

When ever I try to create a movie from a Blink sequence I receive an error "external process failed to start"

I have ffmpeg installed via Homebrew.

Any ideas?

thanks
Carlos

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Re: Blink Movie on Mac
« Reply #1 on: 2016 September 29 14:54:31 »
in a terminal window, do "which ffmpeg"

you should get something like "/opt/local/bin/ffmpeg" - i can't remember where homebrew puts its stuff.

in the blink dialog box for the ffmpeg executable, include the full path (minus the quotes) and it should work.

the problem is that PI's process does not have the homebrew directory as part of it's list of paths to search for binaries.

rob

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Re: Blink Movie on Mac
« Reply #2 on: 2016 September 29 15:17:09 »
Awesome Thanks Rob!  That did the trick
Carlos