It seems that Ubuntu is deprecating ffmpeg in favor of avconv. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1995559 As for the overwriting thing, you forgot the -i flag. Copy/paste this: ffmpeg -i ../Videos/oneoclockjump.flv OneOClockJump.mp3 On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > this is scary. I ran the command and: > > ffmpeg ../Videos/oneoclockjump.flv OneOClockJump.mp3 > ffmpeg version 0.8.3-4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the > Libav developers > built on Jun 12 2012 16:37:58 with gcc 4.6.3 > *** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED *** > This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a > future release. Please use avconv instead. > File '../Videos/oneoclockjump.flv' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] > > so this leaves me with some questions. > 1- does avconv have the same syntax > 2- why is it elling me it wants to write to the file I'm converting from? > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> that is what I thought it told us to do!! I thought it odd that we didnve >> to tell it what they output file type was except just on the output file >> name. So then to covert it to like an MP4 it would be ffmpeg -i filename.flv >> filename.mp4 ? In the same regard it seems ffmpeg converts input.xxx to >> output.yyy . Is that right? What if we have a media file with the encoding >> type striped off? >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Amit Nepal wrote: >>> >>> ffmpeg -i filename.flv filename.mp3 should do it. >>> >>> Amit K Nepal >>> Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE) >>> omNovia Technologies Inc. >>> Amit K Nepal >>> On 8/18/2012 2:36 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >>> >>> I know that I need to use ffmpeg to convert the files but I can't figure >>> it out with the man page. ANy one willing to help to help? >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss