Issues with FFmpeg (and Movie Maker) - need chmod and the binary is the wrong CPU type

[PhilipSharman]

Most appropriate sub-area of Processing 4?

Utilities

Processing version

4.4.4

Operating system

MacOS 11.7.10 (Big Sur)

Steps to reproduce this

1.Install 'Movie Maker II' via Tools > Manage Tools.
2.Run Movie Maker.
3. Movie Maker gives the error 'Creating the QuickTime movie failed. Cannot run program "... frmpeg": error=13, Permission denied'
4. Use 'ls' in Terminal to view ffmpeg's permissions. They are '-rw-r--r--'.
5. Use 'chmod' in Terminal to change ffmpeg's permissions to '-rwxr--r-'.
6. Run Movie Maker again.
7. Movie Maker gives the error 'Creating the QuickTime movie failed. Cannot run program "... frmpeg": error=86, bad CPU type in executable.'
8. If I download the 'static FFmpeg binary for macOS 64-bit Intel' from https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ and replace the existing 'ffmpeg', Movie Maker works okay.

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Additional context

Thanks!

Would you like to work on the issue?

No

[glvjr]

Hello,

I had a similar experience with Windows 10 Pro and replacing the executable corrected it.

I opened an issue here:
Stefterv/processing4-movie-maker#1