[FFmpeg-user] Colons in file name => "Protocol not found"

[Anssi Saari]

I tried to convert an flv file that my TV doesn't like to mp4 with ffmpeg but all 
I got was "protocol not found"... As it turns out, the file was named 
Teinipomo-2014-07-11T19:30:05.flv and apparently that somehow confuses ffmpeg to 
think there's some kind of a protocol involved instead of a file. But really 
that's an ISO 8601 format standard date and time there so shouldn't that be 
handled better than just "protocol not found"?

$ ffmpeg -i Teinipomo-2014-07-11T19:30:05.flv -codec copy t.mp4
ffmpeg version 1.0.9 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on May  2 2014 12:55:13 with gcc 4.7 (Debian 4.7.2-5)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-cflags='-g -O2 -fstack-protector --
param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security ' --extra-ldflags='-
Wl,-z,relro' --cc='ccache cc' --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl 
--enable-nonfree --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --
enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable-
libtheora --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-
libx264 --enable-libspeex --enable-nonfree --disable-stripping --enable-libvpx 
--enable-libschroedinger --disable-encoder=libschroedinger --enable-version3 
--enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-avfilter --enable-libfreetype --
enable-libvo-aacenc --disable-decoder=amrnb --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-
libaacplus --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vda --enable-libbluray 
--enable-libcdio --enable-gnutls --enable-frei0r --enable-openssl --enable-
libass --enable-libopus --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-
libdc1394 --disable-altivec --dis  libavutil      51. 73.101 / 51. 73.101
  libavcodec     54. 59.100 / 54. 59.100
  libavformat    54. 29.104 / 54. 29.104
  libavdevice    54.  2.101 / 54.  2.101
  libavfilter     3. 17.100 /  3. 17.100
  libswscale      2.  1.101 /  2.  1.101
  libswresample   0. 15.100 /  0. 15.100
  libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100
Teinipomo-2014-07-11T19:30:05.flv: Protocol not found