[FFmpeg-user] New version - date in name

Sw@g sweetthdevil at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 11:20:55 CET 2011



On Wed 23 Nov 2011 20:19:28 GMT, Rhodri James wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:51:33 -0000, Sw at g <sweetthdevil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am using ffmepg on arch - the update from today return an error 
>> because of me using date in the name of the file recorded (see below 
>> for the command)
>
>> the error return no file or directory of cam_`date +%#F_%T`.mkv 
>> (being the current date/time)
>
> If that is the error that you got, rather than an approximation of it,
> then whatever you used to run the ffmpeg command didn't interpret the
> backticks as meaning "execute this command". I suspect you have shell
> escaping issues. Showing us the exact, uncut error message would help.
>

Hi Many thanks for your quick reply, see below the complete terminal 
output.

Looking forward for your reply,

[sweetth at myhost ~]$ ffmpeg -f alsa -i pulse -acodec ac3 -f video4linux2 
-s 640x480 -r 15 -i /dev/video0 -vcodec libx264 -preset medium -crf 26 
-threads 0 cam_`date +%#F_%T`.mkv
ffmpeg version N-35110-g0b9a69f, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg 
developers
  built on Nov 23 2011 12:51:56 with gcc 4.6.2
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis 
--enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-libtheora 
--enable-libgsm --enable-libspeex --enable-postproc --enable-shared 
--enable-x11grab --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb 
--enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp 
--enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-runtime-cpudetect 
--disable-debug --disable-static
  libavutil    51. 26. 0 / 51. 26. 0
  libavcodec   53. 37. 0 / 53. 37. 0
  libavformat  53. 21. 0 / 53. 21. 0
  libavdevice  53.  4. 0 / 53.  4. 0
  libavfilter   2. 49. 0 /  2. 49. 0
  libswscale    2.  1. 0 /  2.  1. 0
  libpostproc  51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0
[alsa @ 0x9d7faa0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be 
inaccurate
Input #0, alsa, from 'pulse':
  Duration: N/A, start: 1322129967.230191, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1536 kb/s
[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0x9d84cc0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this 
may be inaccurate
Input #1, video4linux2,v4l2, from '/dev/video0':
  Duration: N/A, start: 92.040540, bitrate: 73728 kb/s
    Stream #1:0: Video: rawvideo (YUY2 / 0x32595559), yuyv422, 640x480, 
73728 kb/s, 15 tbr, 1000k tbn, 15 tbc
cam_2011-11-24_10:19:27.mkv: No such file or directory


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