Try to download the source for ffmpeg , compile and use it .. avconv is
a fork of ffmpeg ( I think ).
*Amit K Nepal
Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE)
omNovia Technologies Inc. <
http://www.omnovia.com>
Amit K Nepal <
http://www.amitnepal.com>
<
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On 8/18/2012 4:24 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> this is scary. I ran the command and:
>
> ffmpeg ../Videos/oneoclockjump.flv OneOClockJump.mp3
> ffmpeg version 0.8.3-4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2012
> the Libav developers
> built on Jun 12 2012 16:37:58 with gcc 4.6.3
> *** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
> This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in
> a future release. Please use avconv instead.
> File '../Videos/oneoclockjump.flv' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N]
>
> so this leaves me with some questions.
> 1- does avconv have the same syntax
> 2- why is it elling me it wants to write to the file I'm converting from?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> that is what I thought it told us to do!! I thought it odd that we
> didnve to tell it what they output file type was except just on
> the output file name. So then to covert it to like an MP4 it would
> be ffmpeg -i filename.flv filename.mp4 ? In the same regard it
> seems ffmpeg converts input.xxx to output.yyy . Is that right?
> What if we have a media file with the encoding type striped off?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Amit Nepal <amit@amitnepal.com
> <mailto:amit@amitnepal.com>> wrote:
>
> ffmpeg -i filename.flv filename.mp3 should do it.
>
> *Amit K Nepal
> Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE)
> omNovia Technologies Inc. <http://www.omnovia.com>
> Amit K Nepal <http://www.amitnepal.com>
> <http://www.amitnepal.com>*
> On 8/18/2012 2:36 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> I know that I need to use ffmpeg to convert the files but I
>> can't figure it out with the man page. ANy one willing to
>> help to help?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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