I forgot the '-i'! Silly me!
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Andrew Harris <
tuna@supertunaman.com>wrote:
> 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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