
Create a folder on your computer to unpack the zip file.Download the latest FFmpeg build, courtesy of v.Here are the basic steps to "install" and use it: Installation Once setup, you enter FFmpeg commands in one of these windows to use it. Command line is that black window you find by typing, then cmd in the popup field and hitting enter. It operates in the command line, as opposed to using a GUI. Stream #0.FFmpeg is indeed a powerful video encoder/decoder tool¹. So it will be cool if anyone point how to work with captured error output and parse string like Second one question will be about parsing that output – I'll need video resolution data to calculate correct aspect ratio for conversion. First one returns an exact string with command, second one – dump error to output console but not to -ErrorVariable i specified ( I did set all out variables, not only error one – all of them were empty).Ĭan anyone point to correct syntax for invoking console applications in posh and capturing output ? Also i tried to do that with invoke-command and invoke expression. I tried direct script, wher ps1 file contained exact expression "d:\video.Enc\ffmpeg.exe -i d:\video.Enc\1.wmv" – it didnt work. Title : Silverlight 2.0 Hello World ApplicationĪt least one output file must be specifiedīut I cant figure how to script this and capture output to any kind of posh objects. Input #0, asf, from 'd:\video.Enc\1.wmv': This is powershell console output ffmpeg.exe : FFmpeg version SVN-r20428, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al. Usually it reports about error and display input file info if one specified.Įx I interactively executed such command:ĭ:\video.Enc\ffmpeg.exe -i d:\video.Enc\1.wmv Im trying to automate video conversion with powershell and ffmpeg tool.įfmpeg have detailed output about video if called without all nessesary parameters.
