Please acknowledge and cite the use of this software and its authors when results are used in publications or published elsewhere:
Friard, O. and Gamba, M.,
BORIS: a free, versatile open-source event-logging software for video/audio coding and live observations.
(2016) Methods Ecol Evol, 7: 1325–1330.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12584
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12584/abstract
General information
BORIS v.9.3.2 is not yet available for MacOS.
This situation is not due to the very restrictive Apple's policy, but rather due to a technical issue.
After switching to mpv (previously, the VLC media player was used until version 8), I have been unable to obtain a functioning libmpv library in order to run BORIS on MacOS. The fact of not having access to a physical computer with macOS, but only to virtual machines, makes solving the problem more difficult. All contributions for compiling and using this library are welcome.
If you want to run v.9.3.2 on your MacOS you have various possibilities.
For Mac computers with Apple Silicon:
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Use VMWARE Fusion to run a virtual machine. A Microsoft-Windows 11 virtual machine is available with BORIS already installed (password for encrypted volume: h2MZZR+Ln7ZFVVh6 - Windows 11 credentials: user/user).
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Use Parallels® Desktop for Mac (proprietary software). Take care to extract the BORIS archive in the Windows file system c:\Users\Bob for example)
For Mac computers with Intel:
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Use UTM a virtual machine host based on QEMU to run Linux or Windows as guest OS on your Mac.
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Use Virtualbox to run Linux or Windows as guest OS on your Mac (free and open-source software). A Linux virtual machine with BORIS installed is available. See Linux virtual machine
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Use Parallels® Desktop for Mac (proprietary software). Take care to extract the BORIS archive in the Windows file system c:\Users\Bob for example)
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A docker image is available at https://hub.docker.com/r/olivierfriard/boris (see the start_macOS.command script)
Refer to the change log for a detailed summary of version updates.
The last version of BORIS that is running natively on MacOS is 7.13.9. This version is 2 years old and is no longer maintained. Many bugs were fixed and features were added in the current version. Please note that issues will only be accepted if you are using the latest version.