MacOs 14.3 Right click/Open File with mrv2 results in error

[piotrnikov]

Hello!
First of all thanks so much for a great player!!
And second, I have an issue on Mac. When right clicking on a video file and choosing mrv2 as a program to open the file, it results in the following error:
The document “Blabla.mp4” could not be opened. mrv2 cannot open files in the “MPEG-4 movie” format.
but when I drag and drop the same file into mrv2 it opens just fine...
Any way to fix this?
Thanks again!!

Piotr

[ggarra13]

When right clicking on a video file and choosing mrv2 as a program to open the file, it results in the following error:
The document “Blabla.mp4” could not be opened. mrv2 cannot open files in the “MPEG-4 movie” format.
but when I drag and drop the same file into mrv2 it opens just fine...
Any way to fix this?

Sadly, there's nothing I can do. It is a bug/misfeature of macOS. The problem is that mrv2 is not a registered application with Apple (which costs around U$200 per year) and as such results in that error in addition to the trouble of installing it.
You might want to report it with Apple to see if they fix it.

[p2or]

Hi folks,

bummer! Just out of curiosity: Why did it work perfectly with mrViewer? Was this introduced as of MacOS 13? My current workaround is to create a wrapper with Automator using a shell script which seems to work for all file types:

Extract the archive, copy mrv2.sh.app e.g. into the 'Applications' folder and make this the default: mrv2.sh.zip

Cheers,
Christian

[ggarra13]

It was introduced I think in macOS 11. mrViewer was written before Apple implemented their certification program and as such it is able to run fine even today. When you now compile and download a program on macOS now, some secret metadata is introduced to prevent the application from running if it is not notarized. That's why you have to install it with Ctrl and why it does not work with Open With.

[p2or]

Hi @ggarra13,

It was introduced I think in macOS 11 mrViewer was written before Apple implemented their certification program and as such it is able to run fine even today ...

interesting, thank you. Automator comes with the system - I don't think it's necessary to install anything.

Cheers,
Christian