[AuckLUG] The ffmpeg thing...

[Ron Johns]

Nevyn wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Ron Johns <ronaldj at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> You don't have lots of users on your machine do you? I.e. it's not
> possible that you're playing the mp3 file as one user and trying to
> encode it as another?
>
> Otherwise the only thing I can suggest is using a tested syntax (I've
> tried this on my machine). The -i might make all the difference. So
> try:
>
> ffmpeg -i\
> /home/gaspode/Music/KitaroEssential/AsTheWindBlows.mp3\
> /home/gaspode/Music/Converted/out.wav
>
> (You should be able to just copy and paste that command without fear
> of line breaks)
>
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Hi Nevyn,
         Thanks , I tried. could you run your eye over this to make sure 
I cut & pasted every thing as I should...


[gaspode at localhost ~]$ ffmpeg 
-i\/home/gaspode/Music/KitaroEssential/AsTheWindBlows.mp3\/home/gaspode/Music/Converted/out.wav
FFmpeg version SVN-r6005, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
  configuration:  --prefix=/usr --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg 
--libdir=/usr/lib --shlibdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --cpu=x86 
--extra-cflags=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions 
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 
-mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables --enable-mp3lame 
--enable-libogg --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-faac 
--enable-libgsm --enable-xvid --enable-a52 --enable-a52bin --enable-pp 
--disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug 
--disable-opts --disable-strip
  libavutil version: 49.0.0
  libavcodec version: 51.11.0
  libavformat version: 50.5.0
  built on Aug 18 2006 08:11:51, gcc: 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)
ffmpeg: unrecognized option 
'-i/home/gaspode/Music/KitaroEssential/AsTheWindBlows.mp3/home'
[gaspode at localhost ~]$


Dropping the -i got me....
All the usual garbage then...

 built on Aug 18 2006 08:11:51, gcc: 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)
Unable for find a suitable output format for 
'/home/gaspode/Music/KitaroEssential/AsTheWindBlows.mp3/home'
[gaspode at localhost ~]$

Just thought I'd let you know.
I will have a look at some of the options that Chill gave me.
Ta
Ron.

P.S. Only one user.
R.