[FFmpeg-user] avi file "operation not permitted"

[Rodney Baker]

On Fri, 6 May 2011 06:48:29 Jon Drukman wrote:
> /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -loglevel quiet -v 0 -i list.avi -s 480x352 -an -pass
> 1 -vcodec libx264 -vpre fast_firstpass -b 300k -bt 300k -threads 0
> list.avi.mp4
> 
> ffmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
>    built on May  5 2011 11:01:27 with gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)
>    configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame
> --enable-libx264 --enable-pthreads --enable-static --disable-shared
> --disable-network --enable-nonfree
>    libavutil    51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0
>    libavcodec   53.  3. 0 / 53.  3. 0
>    libavformat  53.  0. 3 / 53.  0. 3
>    libavdevice  53.  0. 0 / 53.  0. 0
>    libavfilter   2.  4. 0 /  2.  4. 0
>    libswscale    0. 14. 0 /  0. 14. 0
> list.avi: Operation not permitted
> 
> What does it mean?  I built ffmpeg from source this morning using last
> night's tarball/snapshot.
> 

It probably means you either don't have permission to read list.avi (or it 
doesn't exist in the directory where you're running ffmpeg) or perhaps to 
write list.avi.mp4. Make sure you're in the correct directory and that you 
have the appropriate file permissions.

Also, make sure you didn't compile ffmpeg as root. Always configure and 
compile as a normal user, then switch to root to do "make install". 
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