conscious-sapphire•3mo ago
[MacOS] ffprobe and ffmpeg are failing to download once the download progress bar reaches 100%
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conscious-sapphire•3mo ago
I ran into this when today setting Migaku up on a new M4 MacBook Air.
The problem is that the ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries that the Anki addon downloads are built for older x86 Macs, not the current ARM models.
To fix this, you need to install Rosetta 2, which is Apple’s layer that translates x86 programs to work on ARM. To do this, open a Terminal window, run this command, and follow any instructions that appear:
softwareupdate --install-rosetta
This will download Rosetta 2 from Apple and install it. Afterwards, restart Anki and everything should work.
The addon should be updated to download ARM binaries, M-series Macs are about 5 years old at this point. They’re not exactly new
Or at minimum they should update documentation to add the bit about Rosettaconscious-sapphireOP•3mo ago
Thanks for helping me resolve the issue 🙇
xenial-black•2mo ago
Thank you, this resolved the issue for me as well.