ffmpeg loop

bendeco13 · 11-07-2004, 02:25 AM

When I use this code:

Code:

find "$DIR" -name "*.wav" | while read list ; do
   echo "$list"
   ffmpeg -y -hq -i "$list" "${list%%.*}.ra"
done

it only does the first file and not all the .wav files like it should....
This same code used with lame works fine for all files....
e.g.

Code:

find "$DIR" -name "*.wav" | while read list; do
   echo "$list"
   lame -b $BITRATE -h -t "$list" "${list%%.*}.mp3"
done

So this must be a problem with the way I setup the options/etc.. for ffmpeg.
I'm clueless....

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

bendeco13 · 11-07-2004, 10:53 PM

Ok.....
I fixed the problem...
for some reason ffmpeg is reading from standard input, which is
killing off the rest of the output from find.
I found this from here

So I had to add </dev/null to the end of the ffmpeg command...
My script now looks like this:

Code:

find "$DIR" -name "*.wav" | while read list ; do
   echo "$list"
   ffmpeg -y -hq -i "$list" "${list%%.*}.ra" </dev/null
done

All works well

Cheers