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sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4001 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Not exactly programming, but this seemed a better place than the Users forum.

I`m trying to make ffmpeg work because none of the GUIs will work.
I run ffmpeg and get the error: ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-i /mnt/hdb5/0/movie.avi
It`s hard to believe that "-i" and the input file is an unknown option...
Here`s the command line I used and ffmpeg`s output:

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4001 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Surely someone here has used FFmpeg at the command line..!

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

I am no expert with ffmpeg but I use this to convert the size of movies for my phone.

gposil · Posted: Sat 24 Oct 2009, 08:58 Post subject:

sunburnt,

your version of ffmpeg is not compiled with libxvid support, that is why it won't work.

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4001 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

gposil; That`s what I suspected, and I`m sure the same goes for x-h264 and AC3.
Whats the chances of getting one that has been compiled properly?
Do you have a copy of ffmpeg that`s been "fixed" ?

trapster; There`s so many examples it`s dizzying, my needs are simple.
Convert to Xvid or x-h264, keep the AC3 audio, maybe transcode it`s bit rate lower.

ALSO... I haven`t seen any examples of loading several video files into ffmpeg.
Or examples of using it to join separate video files together end to end..

gposil · Posted: Sat 24 Oct 2009, 20:03 Post subject:

sunburnt,
I'm doing a recompile of ffmpeg for dpup482beta5, and it includes all the codecs you would want, it won't be ready till probably Tuesday though...I'll post the link to it here when it's done...Hope that helps.

Cheers

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4001 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

gposil; That is killer! I want to dump Puppy400, but no other Puppy has worked.
Then I tried Dpup and I love it, I have Debian experience and it worked great...
Just that "load SFS file to ram no matter what" problem so Firefox lacked ram to run.
Let me know... And many thanks... Terry

gposil · Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009, 07:11 Post subject:

sunburnt,

below is link to ffmpeg upgrade for dpup...it will not work in other puppies, it has just about all codecs known to man and dog...hope that helps...

http://dpup.org/test/dpup482beta4-2.6.30.5/upgrades/ffmpeg-dpup-upgrade.pet

Cheers
Guy

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4001 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Thanks Guy; I`ll be working on this today, I`ll let you know how it goes.
I ran Dpup all night to see if it had any problems.. Nope, not a one!
Got up this morning and it responded to the mouse and was running fine.

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

Avidemux uses the shared Xvid library and not avcodec.

mike

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4001 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

gposil; I`ve tried your Dpup ffmpeg.pet and I`m getting the same error:

gposil · Posted: Tue 03 Nov 2009, 00:47 Post subject:

sunburnt...command should be

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4001 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

gposil; It`s running! ( at last ) Many thanks my friend... Terry

I`m working on a replacement for pupdvdtool, I found a few flaws in it.
And I may work up a simplified GUI for ffmpeg also, a lot more work though.

# Qs;
1) Is there a way to get ffmpeg to append or load more than one input file?
2) Can ffmpeg multiplex separate V & A files together?
3) Your line put V & A codec declares first and bit rates after, is this needed?

gposil · Posted: Tue 03 Nov 2009, 04:45 Post subject:

1.) You can batch convert with ffmpeg simply using a script...like the following:

disciple · Posted: Tue 03 Nov 2009, 05:07 Post subject:

1) They want to know how to join several files together, one after the other... I can't remember now whether ffmpeg can do that.