[FFmpeg-user] Converting mkv to mp3 failures

[JD]

On 07/13/2017 02:34 PM, Kieran O Leary wrote:
> Woah
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:56 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I uploaded the full screen out put to:
>>
>> https://www.sendspace.com/file/l5jdvs
>>
>> it is called FFMPEG_ERRORS
>>
>>
> I only looked through some as you posted the output of  loads of
> videos!???? It might help to pick just one that fails, and copy paste the
> complete terminal output of just that one to the mailing list. You will get
> more help that way.
> Anyhow it looks like a lot of these are successfully processing.
> However, some of these are failing simply because your paths are incorrect.
> It looks like you are only using the filename only, with not path, and
> ffmpeg just can't find the file. This is probably because the file you are
> trying to process is not in your current directory. I'm copy pasting one of
> these examples
>
> /bin/ffmpeg.d/ffmpeg -i FdaVGRew.mkv -vn -c:a libmp3lame -ab 320k -ac 2 -y
> /thumbdrive-A/The_Smiths/MP3/FdaVGRew.mp3
> ffmpeg version 3.0.2-static http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/  Copyright (c)
> 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
>    built with gcc 5.3.1 (Debian 5.3.1-16) 20160424
>    configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static
> --disable-debug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265
> --enable-libwebp --enable-libspeex --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx
> --enable-libfreetype --enable-fontconfig --enable-libxvid
> --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora
> --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-gray --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus
> --enable-libass --enable-gnutls --enable-libvidstab --enable-libsoxr
> --enable-frei0r --enable-libfribidi --disable-indev=sndio
> --disable-outdev=sndio --enable-librtmp --enable-libmfx --enable-libzimg
> --cc=gcc
>    libavutil      55. 17.103 / 55. 17.103
>    libavcodec     57. 24.102 / 57. 24.102
>    libavformat    57. 25.100 / 57. 25.100
>    libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
>    libavfilter     6. 31.100 /  6. 31.100
>    libswscale      4.  0.100 /  4.  0.100
>    libswresample   2.  0.101 /  2.  0.101
>    libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
> FdaVGRew.mkv: No such file or directory
>
> On a side note,  you seem to be getting a very verbose console display
> which might be confusing matters. I think some keyboard shortcut causes
> this to happen - it's happened to me by accident a few times.
>
> Best,
>
> Kieran.
The problem of file not found is caused by the naming conventions
used by youtube-dl - so that even if I enclose the filename in double 
quotes,
ffmpeg is UNABLE to parse the name correctly

I don't know whether to blame youtube-dl or ffmpeg.