--- title: natively compiling ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder on MacOS Lion (with x264!) author: tracey pooh type: post date: 2012-01-09 categories: - video tags: - coding - ffmpeg - geek - mac - video featured: traceymonet.jpg comment: --- OK, I've revamped my script to compile these tools: ```bash ffmpeg ffrobe qt-faststart mplayer mencoder ``` on MacOS Lion, using the heads of the trees, with direct encoding support for: `x264` `vpx` / WebM https://archive.org/download/traceypooh/macff.sh A nice recent update to ffmpeg is the ability to decode/read Apple ProRes, too!