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I have a PHP application that uses ffmpeg with libfreetype. I installed both ffmpeg and libfreetype from macports. But I keep getting this error:

2013-08-30 14:44:21 - Generate poster - Create thumbnail using ffmpeg.
2013-08-30 14:44:21 - Generate poster - FFMpeg lib found.
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg
  Reason: Incompatible library version: ffmpeg requires version 17.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 15.0.0

otool -L /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib shows 

/opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 17.0.0, current version 17.2.0)

But I also noticed another version on the system. otool -L /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib shows

/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 15.0.0, current version 15.1.0)

So I suspect maybe ffmpeg is trying to use that library. But I'm not sure. Any ideas how to fix this?

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  • did you work out how to fix this issue?
    – buggedcom
    Nov 22, 2013 at 10:41
  • No. I followed the errors for a long time, installing one dependency after another, and I got stuck at some point. Eventually I resorted to letting this particular PHP app use a very old version of ffmpeg (0.5) that the developer recommended, and then it works.
    – Elliott
    Nov 22, 2013 at 20:32
  • do you use mamp by any chance? I found that commenting out everything in /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/envvars did the trick because the binaries were using the MAMP versions of the tools and not the installed versions.
    – buggedcom
    Nov 22, 2013 at 20:41
  • I actually use XAMPP. Maybe the same issue. Idk I already gave up on it. Thanks for the tip though, hopefully this will help someone else.
    – Elliott
    Nov 23, 2013 at 0:32

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Try to reinstall with Homebrew instead of macports..? I have had too many dependency issues when using macports. 

brew install ffmpeg

If you have problems (you shouldn't on a clean Homebrew install) check the answer here.

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