[FFmpeg-user] How to preserve file time

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Aug 19 13:41:05 EEST 2024



Am 19.08.24 um 07:56 schrieb James Ralston:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 3:54 PM Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at cosoco.de> wrote:
> 
>> You can spin it however you like. The logic around the ‘-y’ option
>> requires an extra additional OS call
> 
> It shouldn’t.
> 
>> in this case querying the existence of the file, before it is
>> overwritten.
> 
> The fact that ffmpeg does it this way is a bug (albeit perhaps one of
> convenience, since ffmpeg supports more operating systems than just
> Unix/Linux)

it doesn't at all
with "-y" it just opens the file and that's it


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