<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">If Debian based then dpkg -l ffmpeg should to tell you if it is installed. <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jan 2, 2018, at 8:36 PM, James Mcphee <<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com">jmcphe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">dpkg makes me think debian or *buntu. apt-cache search ffmpeg to see packages available that have it in there. if it were me, i'd probably install dvdrip and use the perl tools that frontend libffmpeg.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com" target="_blank">herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What distro do you use?<br>
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> On Jan 2, 2018, at 7:53 PM, <a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> When I tried to run this to convert a video:<br>
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> cat workshop2.VOB | ffmpeg -i - workit.mp4<br>
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> This was the result:<br>
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> ffmpeg: command not found<br>
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> When searching my system for ffmpeg, I found lots<br>
> of entries, but apparently not the right thing.<br>
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> Or ... what do I need to differently to get this to work?<br>
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> locate ffmpeg | fgrep lib<br>
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/<wbr>gstreamer-0.10/<wbr>libgstffmpegcolorspace.so<br>
> /usr/lib/kde4/ffmpegthumbs.so<br>
> /usr/lib/kde4/<wbr>k3bffmpegdecoder.so<br>
> /usr/lib/kde4/<wbr>kffmpegthumbnailer.so<br>
> /usr/lib/kde4/kfilemetadata_<wbr>ffmpegextractor.so<br>
> /usr/lib/transcode/export_<wbr>ffmpeg.so<br>
> /usr/lib/transcode/import_<wbr>ffmpeg.so<br>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4<br>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4.0.8<br>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/<wbr>gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so<br>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/<wbr>gstreamer-0.10/<wbr>libgstffmpegcolorspace.so<br>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/<wbr>gstreamer-0.10/<wbr>libgstffmpegscale.so<br>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/<wbr>libquicktime2/lqt_ffmpeg.so<br>
> /usr/share/doc/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer4<br>
> /usr/share/doc/libxine1-ffmpeg<br>
> /usr/share/doc/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer4/<wbr>changelog.Debian.gz<br>
> /usr/share/doc/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer4/<wbr>copyright<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<wbr>ffmpegthumbs.list<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<wbr>ffmpegthumbs.md5sums<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/gstreamer0.<wbr>10-ffmpeg:amd64.list<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/gstreamer0.<wbr>10-ffmpeg:amd64.md5sums<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<wbr>kffmpegthumbnailer.list<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<wbr>kffmpegthumbnailer.md5sums<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer4.list<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer4.md5sums<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer4.postinst<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer4.postrm<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<wbr>libffmpegthumbnailer4.shlibs<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libxine1-<wbr>ffmpeg.list<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libxine1-<wbr>ffmpeg.md5sums<br>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libxine1-<wbr>ffmpeg.postinst<br>
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