@jbritton3 are you successful with any exports at all?
I was able to do it before, when ffmpeg was part of the program.
do i need to do anything with the files in the ‘lib’ folder?
Ok, did you download the 64bit or 32bit ffmpeg for mac?
Just out of curiosity
I followed some old instructions that i found online. Is there an easy way to tell with a command line?
@jbritton3 well, can you try and run it via terminal? Just to make sure…
When you run the java in terminal you should see the url to download the program so then you can run ffmpeg via command line using the url for ffmpeg -i and out put file name
Just try an easy test like that
Did one and it worked. The heading had this:
ffmpeg version 2.6.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built with Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.49) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
configuration: --enable-libmp3lame --enable-shared --disable-mmx --arch=x86_64
Does that mean it is the 64 bit version?
Do you need more of the output?
Did you build it??
I built ffmpeg from instructions at this website:
I was able to convert some files after that, so it was able to run. I was re-reading your post, and it looks like i misinterpreted what you asked. Should I run TabloExport.jar from the terminal, which would give me the URL of the video file. Then try ffmpeg from the URL of the video i wanted to convert?
By the way, thanks for taking time out of your weekend to help me out. I really appreciate it.
@jbritton3 no problem was feverishly working on other stuff for it any way 
Oh and yes please try exporting from command line
@Jestep, so i guess i’m having trouble figuring out how to run a java file in terminal. Any chance you can help me with that?
java -jar TabloExport.jar
You’re going to hate me by the end of today…
So i ran the command and it yielded what i sent you earlier. Is there some way from that information that i can get the URL of all the videos on my hard drive? The output again is this:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: tabloexport/TabloExport : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Thanks! I bet that will fix everything.
lol
Ok, and just an announcement here… Updated TabloExport now includes a queue so you can select multiple shows (and even from Multiple Tablos) click export and they will go into the queue to be processed.
If you want to keep your original just put this one in a different place.
Either double click on the jar to run it or run via command line as follows:
java -jar TabloExport.jar
Instructions:
1. Once Loaded, Double click on the Tablo to load the shows.
2. Make sure you select the ffmpeg executable
3. Make sure you select the output dir
4. Select the show(s) to export.
5. Click export and the shows will be moved to the queue.
Shows will be processed in order added
You can cancel ALL exports or Individual Exports.
When you close the application it will keep all or queue items and restore them next time you launch the application. This means any items still queued or no completed will be queued back up to export
Current version is here:
Let me know if you find any bugs or issues. Or even suggestions. I tried to fight all the bugs up front, but I think we all know that is never 100%.
Thanks All
I just found this thread after trying the VLC and python methods. This has worked flawlessly so far on Mac OS. Thanks so much Jestep. My only question is if there is a way to export the metadata (airdate, season, episode) to the mp4 files?
Great job. This has added a lot more value to the Tablo.