It seems that Ubuntu is deprecating ffmpeg in favor of avconv.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1995559
As for the overwriting thing, you forgot the -i flag. Copy/paste this:
ffmpeg -i ../Videos/oneoclockjump.flv OneOClockJump.mp3
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> 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> 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> wrote:
>>>
>>> ffmpeg -i filename.flv filename.mp3 should do it.
>>>
>>> Amit K Nepal
>>> Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE)
>>> omNovia Technologies Inc.
>>> Amit K Nepal
>>> 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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