[AuckLUG] The ffmpeg thing...

[Billy Morgan]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:12:53 Ron Johns wrote:
> 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/Mus
>ic/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 ~]$
Oops Nevyn forgot the spaces in that command...

ffmpeg -i \
/home/gaspode/Music/KitaroEssential/AsTheWindBlows.mp3 \
/home/gaspode/Music/Converted/out.wav

That should work better although I imagine all that will happen is that you'll 
get the error you were having originally.

Billy