[FFmpeg-user] Confusing ffprobe exit codes

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Wednesday 2013-06-26 15:19:09 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> L'octidi 8 messidor, an CCXXI, Dalibor Mitrovic a écrit :
> > I am having an issue while using ffprobe to gather information regarding
> > the audio stream(s) of video files.
> > 
> > I use the following command line
> > "ffprobe -show_streams -select_streams a singleAudioStreamVideoFile.mp4".
> > ffprobe returns the requested meta data but exits with exit code "1"
> > indicating that "the file cannot be opened or recognized as a multimedia
> > file" [1].
> > Calling ffprobe for the same video file and requesting meta data regarding
> > the video stream, using the following command line
> > "ffprobe -show_streams -select_streams v singleAudioStreamVideoFile.mp4"
> > 
> > results in the metadata being returned and exit code "0".
> > The exit codes do not change if the parameter "-show_streams" is omitted.
> 
> I had noticed the problem for some time but not yet investigated it. It is
> caused by the presence of the -select_streams options, and causes the exit
> code to be the boolean value of the stream selection for the last stream.
> 
> I have sent a patch fixing it to the devel mailing-list, thanks for the
> report.

Should be fixed now, please report in case the problem is still
present.
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