Re: ffmpeg-0.8 expects wrong preset file extension (.ffpreset instead of .avpreset)

[Laurento <laurento.frittella@gmail.com>]

I've just filed a bug upstream https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/1013
The 0.10 version is already out so I think they will suggest to try
the new one :)

2012/2/22 Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Laurento <laurento.frittella@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm using ffmpeg 4:0.8-1 and libav-tools 4:0.8-1+b1 from squeeze-backports
>>
>> # strace -e trace=open,close /usr/bin/ffmpeg -i 'test-orig.mp4'
>> -vcodec 'libx264' -vpre 'libx264-fast' -s '640x480' -acodec
>> 'libvo_aacenc' -ac '2'  test-final.mp4
>>
>> [...]
>> open("/root/.avconv/libx264-fast.ffpreset", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
>> such file or directory)
>> open("/root/.avconv/libx264-libx264-fast.ffpreset", O_RDONLY) = -1
>> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> open("/usr/share/avconv/libx264-fast.ffpreset", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
>> (No such file or directory)
>> open("/usr/share/avconv/libx264-libx264-fast.ffpreset", O_RDONLY) = -1
>> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> File for preset 'libx264-fast' not found
>>
>> As you can see in the strace output ffmpeg searches for a .ffpreset
>> file instead of .avpreset that is the presets file extension used in
>> libav-tools (all the preset files under /usr/share/avconv/ are
>> .avpreset)
>>
>> Just as a temporary workaround simply adding a symlink (Eg: ln -s
>> /usr/share/avconv/libx264-fast.avpreset
>> /usr/share/avconv/libx264-fast.ffpreset) do the trick.
>
> Can you please file a bug about this? Thanks.
>
>
> --
> regards,
>     Reinhard