[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg console output

[Mark G. Lind]

Is there a way to suppress the console output from ffmpeg run from the
command line.

 

I tried using -loglevel quiet and -loglevel 0, but still get console output.

 

Console output looks like this:

 

6418050617# ffmpeg -loglevel 0 -i zion-springdale-ad.flv

FFmpeg version 0.6.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers

  built on Mar 18 2011 13:44:13 with gcc 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]

  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local/man --enable-shared
--enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf
--enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-memalign-hack --cc=cc
--extra-cflags=-msse -I/usr/local/include/vorbis -I/usr/local/include
--extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib --extra-libs=-pthread --disable-debug
--disable-indev=alsa --disable-outdev=alsa --enable-libopencore-amrnb
--enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-version3
--disable-libdirac --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree --enable-libfaad
--enable-libfaadbin --disable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame
--enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --disable-ffplay
--disable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx
--enable-libx264 --disable-libxvid

  libavutil     50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1

  libavcodec    52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2

  libavformat   52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2

  libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0

  libavfilter    1.19. 0 /  1.19. 0

  libswscale     0.11. 0 /  0.11. 0

  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0

 

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 1000.00
(1000/1) -> 29.92 (359/12)

At least one output file must be specified

 

Whenever ffmpeg is called this is the minimal output and it fills up much
web server logs.

 

Also, when I try to run an ffmpeg command in a shell script and try to put
it in the background it doesn't run. When it gets put in the background the
job is just suspended and output a line like this.

 

[1]          + Suspended (tty output)            ./ffmpeg-mbr somefile.flv
somedirectory

 

ffmpeg-mbr just runs multiple ffmpeg commands to output files at multiple
bit rates.

 

I have two problems I need to resolve.

 

1. ffmpeg filling up web server logs

2. ffmpeg not running in the background on a linux server

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Mark