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garfieldfromgarfield

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KynikossDragonn said:
You mean to tell me you don't see the file, right there, next to the mp4...?

Not trying to sound condescending but, I'm having a hard time understanding what's hard to understand about ffmpeg's operation... Unless MacOS is doing something stupid and forcing it to output the file somewhere else you're not paying attention to in Finder. (is that what the file manager is called in MacOS?)

i found it!! it was sent to my video player app. thank you so much for your help, you have the patience of a saint and have restored years to my life

thank you to savageorange and mairo as well! couldn't have done it without y'all either!!

KynikossDragonn

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In response to blip #120031

garfieldfromgarfield said:
how do i then DOWNLOAD and GET the webm file?

You mean to tell me you don't see the file, right there, next to the mp4...?

Not trying to sound condescending but, I'm having a hard time understanding what's hard to understand about ffmpeg's operation... Unless MacOS is doing something stupid and forcing it to output the file somewhere else you're not paying attention to in Finder. (is that what the file manager is called in MacOS?)

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    garfieldfromgarfield

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    sorry to make this topic drag on for so long, but i can tell i'm almost there. i figured out how to include the absolute path in the code, so ffmpeg was able to locate the file and says that it's converted it into webm. how do i then DOWNLOAD and GET the webm file? do i run another line of code to extract it or something else?

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    Mairo

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    @garfieldfromgarfield: and this is why I always hate it when people ask for help, not because I don't mind helping but I exclusively use FFmpeg these days and for most people I would have to start explaining the basics of CLI.
    Technically on windows you can also just copy-paste the command in notepad, save it as .bat, have ffmpeg.exe on same folder and execute the .bat file with video file in folder.

    savageorange

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    garfieldfromgarfield said:
    thank you for your help and sorry for the late response. i have downloaded homebrew and ffmpeg and i have the video i would like to convert. i am typing

    ffmpeg -i videotitle.mp4 videotitle.webm

    but it says that no such file or directory exists. is "i" supposed to be a variable, or am i not entering enough information?

    Looks good enough for a test run. That error may indicate you haven't quoted the input filename correctly (if it has spaces or other special characters). If it does have special characters and you don't already know how to correctly quote filenames, renaming the file to avoid that is probably simplest.

    I guess one other alternative is that you're not in the correct directory.

    garfieldfromgarfield

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    KynikossDragonn said:
    Yeah you have to have FFmpeg installed, I don't know how you'd go about doing that on MacOS but it's very simple under Windows (there's self-contained static windows builds) and every Linux distribution packages it also so it's simple to install in Linux as well.

    Apple wall garden's their OS so hard these days I'm not sure if it's even possible to get a FFmpeg dmg package for it.

    thank you for your help and sorry for the late response. i have downloaded homebrew and ffmpeg and i have the video i would like to convert. i am typing

    ffmpeg -i videotitle.mp4 videotitle.webm

    but it says that no such file or directory exists. is "i" supposed to be a variable, or am i not entering enough information?

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    Pink Hat

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    Yooo what the heck, my Bionicle-pusher fucken knocks it out of the park again. As if the medium blue prototype-colour Kakama wasn't already cool enough, she added a design prototype with my newest order. She's friggin crazy, I've no idea how she keeps pulling this off

    (Also is it weird that e6 of all sites are probably one of the only places I'll really post about this?)

    KynikossDragonn

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    garfieldfromgarfield said:
    do i have to have a coding program installed or does my computer

    Yeah you have to have FFmpeg installed, I don't know how you'd go about doing that on MacOS but it's very simple under Windows (there's self-contained static windows builds) and every Linux distribution packages it also so it's simple to install in Linux as well.

    Apple wall garden's their OS so hard these days I'm not sure if it's even possible to get a FFmpeg dmg package for it.

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    Pink Hat

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    Just played through Portal with a Gamecube controller on my Switch, it was pretty cool to do. Default controls for the game don't work with it but you can just change it so it's all good. God I fucking love portal

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    garfieldfromgarfield

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    KynikossDragonn said:
    @garfieldfromgarfield:
    Use FFmpeg and you don't have to pay anything or register to dubious websites:

    $ ffmpeg -hide_banner -i ./somevideo.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 30 -pass 1 -an -f null /dev/null && \
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i ./somevideo.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 30 -pass 2 -c:a libopus -b:a 128k -vbr on -compression_level 10 ./someothervideo.webm

    do i have to have a coding program installed or does my computer already come with one? i tried entering a line of code but it didn't do anything. i'm sure my syntax was completely incorrect but i can't figure out how to fix it. all the tutorials i've looked at are for people who already have a basic understanding of the program.

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    KynikossDragonn

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    @garfieldfromgarfield:
    Use FFmpeg and you don't have to pay anything or register to dubious websites:

    $ ffmpeg -hide_banner -i ./somevideo.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 30 -pass 1 -an -f null /dev/null && \
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i ./somevideo.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 30 -pass 2 -c:a libopus -b:a 128k -vbr on -compression_level 10 ./someothervideo.webm
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    garfieldfromgarfield

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    i own a mac. i want to convert an mp4 to a webm.
    i look up free webm converters. the one i normally use, cloudconvert, only allows 5 minutes of free conversion time per unregistered account.
    i register an account. "garfieldfromgarfield", i type in. this will solve the problem.
    wrong. even with an account, i am still limited to a measly 5 minutes of conversion time per file. a pittance.
    i find another video converter site. this one has no time restrictions. great! i convert the video and open it. the quality is abysmal. i cannot upload this.
    i try another. better, but only slightly. i'm a little frustrated.
    i ask the internet. there must be an alternative. surely there are hundreds if not thousands of people like me who have the same problem.
    let's try freemake, that sounds good. but i can't, as it's only for windows.
    mairo suggests ffmpeg. let's try that. but i cannot figure out how to use it. i cannot code. i trash the program in resignation.
    please help.

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    No-one-you-know

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    Dang I'm about to hit 50k favorites, half way to not being able to add any more... does anyone know if deleted posts are still counted or not and if so is there a way to easily remove them?

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