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Old 11-15-2009, 12:42 PM   #1
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FFMPEG - test.mp4: unknown format


Hello all,

Well i've installed ffmpeg and it's working quite well
but whenever i try to convert mp4 to flv then i get
following error.

Quote:
FFmpeg version SVN-r14473, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/ffmpeg --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-liba52 --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/ffmpeg/include/ --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/ffmpeg/lib --enable-cross-compile
libavutil version: 49.7.0
libavcodec version: 51.62.0
libavformat version: 52.18.0
libavdevice version: 52.0.0
built on Sep 26 2009 20:50:46, gcc: 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)
test.mp4: Unknown format
what could be the problem here?

Any help will be greatly appreciated..

Thanks

Last edited by kingkashif; 11-15-2009 at 12:43 PM.
 
Old 11-15-2009, 05:04 PM   #2
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Did you use something like 'ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -vcodec flv test.flv'? You didn't post your actual commandline. What does 'mediainfo' say about your "test.mp4"?
 
Old 11-16-2009, 02:02 PM   #3
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"ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -vcodec flv test.flv" gives same output that I wrote first.

and "mediainfo -f test.mp4" gives following

Quote:
General
Count : 259
Count of stream of this kind : 1
Kind of stream : General
Kind of stream : General
Stream identifier : 0
Complete name : test.mp4
File name : test.mp4
File extension : mp4
File size : 387404578
File size : 369 MiB
File size : 369 MiB
File size : 369 MiB
File size : 369 MiB
File size : 369.5 MiB
Stream size : 387404578
Stream size : 369 MiB
Stream size : 369 MiB
Stream size : 369 MiB
Stream size : 369 MiB
Stream size : 369.5 MiB
File last modification date : UTC 2009-11-16 15:58:27
File last modification date (loc : 2009-11-16 09:58:27
any idea ?
 
Old 11-16-2009, 04:05 PM   #4
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Can you post the output of:
Code:
ffmpeg -i test.mp4
Maybe this can give us some ideas.
 
Old 11-17-2009, 08:11 AM   #5
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well the error I wrote in the main thread .. That's exactly I get.
 
  


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