Lion's service to encode media files is not installed

Same exact problem here. Not an option in my services either.

27" iMac | 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

I have the same problem as well. No encoding options. I have a 2011 17" MBP.

I think I found the solution (at least for me):

I had the same problem, that these options weren’t in my context menu and also couldn’t be found under the services. But for some reason when I log in with a different user, the options were there…

What I did, I went to “/System/Library/Services/” and there the two ‘workflows’ were.
I copied them and placed them into “/Users/(me)/Library/Services”. Attention, for some reason the Library folder is now hidden in Lion, but you can still access it via the “go to folder” function (cmd+shift+g) and typing in the path, for example “/Users/Tom/Library/”.

After copying the files I had the questioned options active in my services, and they were already checked and in my context menu.

My thoughts to the problem: inside the Library folder of my other user account (where these options were already available) was no “Services” folder.
Maybe this “bug” only happens, when you have custom user-specific services installed – in my case it was my “EspionageMenue.service”, which was only installed on my regular user account, but not on the other one.

Hope this helps someone else as well =)

Cheers, L

I can get to it here:

But I don't know what makes that work.

Regards,

Colin R.

Checked your keyboard shortcuts & settings?

i can access this on both right click of file and through the screenshot colin posted

is this happening on safe mode?

Lennert's solution worked for me... thank you very much. Still is a workaround for whatever is going on to cause this. I had my own "Services" folder as well... which included only "AppDelete". Just to check, I removed my "Services" folder(the one in my library) and rebooted, to see if all the default services would return... but the services did not appear, and the appdelete service was still on my list. I had to copy the default services to my personal services folder... as you directed... to get it to work.

Thank you very much.

Lennert_S's tip worked for me as well. Strangely I didn't have a "services" folder in the User Library, so I just created one. Worked fine.

I also had good use of the trick/tip. But it is still a bit odd ... Please see my post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3250075

Not sure why the services would be in the /System/Library/Services folder but not appearing. It could be that the pasteboard server that handles loading services is munged and needs to be reset. Enter the following in the Terminal app:

/System/Library/CoreServices/pbs -flush

and hit the Return key to execute. This will reset the pasteboard server and the services should be there now.

Cheers,

Sal

I had same issue. This helped.