2.6.15 Could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "cocoa"

[jebediah]

My hair is falling as I am giving yet another go at queuing jobs with Avidemux on a 10.11 Mac.

Usually running 2.6.8, but when executing avidemux_jobs in the Terminal, pressing the Run Jobs button in the GUI gives me the following error:

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[spawnProcess]  ==================== Start of spawner process job ================
[u][b]sh: avidemux3_cli: command not found[/b][/u]
  [spawnProcess]  ==================== End of spawner process job ================
  [spawnChild]  Spawning successfull
  [waitForConnect]  Select failed
  [runOneJob]  No connect


The same goes with QT4 checked, where the error will state avidemux3_qt4 instead of avidemux3_cli. Neither of them is inside the app structure or on my system, and I cannot find them on their own online.

Therefore I resolved to running the latest version, 2.6.15 from Fosshub or nightly, and both are broken in a different way. Here is what I get upon launching the avidemux or avidemux_jobs executable:

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  [UI_Init] 08:12:48-330  Starting QT4 GUI...
Setting qt plugin folder
QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath: Please instantiate the QApplication object first
New plugin path =/
[u][b]This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "cocoa"
in "".[/b][/u]

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Abort trap: 6
logout


Has anybody an idea how to solve either of these problems, or provide a clean method for running jobs. Not being able to GUI batch process videos with this excellent piece of software drives me crazy everytime.

[jebediah]

(bump)

[mean]

The 1st part is probably just the binary missing from the bundle
if you symlink avidemux or avidemux_qt5 to avidemux_cli, it may work