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ffmpeg shell scripts
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tile-thumbnails fails on Windows due to the usage of bc in line 138 #3

Closed warduweram closed 9 months ago

warduweram commented 9 months ago

Hey!

Thanks for your work on these excellent scripts. Unfortunately, I can't bring the tile-thumbnails script to work on Windows, it exits with "line 138: bc: command not found". From what I could gather this could be related to bc requiring commands to be terminated with "\n" and ffprobe on Windows containing CR and LF. It might be another issue, though, I don't know.

https://superuser.com/questions/1647642/using-variables-with-bc-syntax-error

Thanks in advance for looking into this!

NapoleonWils0n commented 9 months ago

Hi Mate, you need to install the bc command which is used as a calculator

your right about the line endings, im not a windows user but that rings a bell

if possible its best to use wsl to install the scipts windows run shell scripts with wsl

then you wont get any line ending issues

or you can install bc with cywgin cygwin bc

scene detect on windows with cygwin

let me know if that helps

warduweram commented 9 months ago

Hey!

Thanks so much, that did the trick. And sorry, I didn't consider that I might just be missing a package, I'm mostly a GUI Windows user and I keep forgetting stuff when I get back to the command line. ;-) Can't install either WSL nor Docker on my machine, either btw, but I already did have MSYS installed and could get bc through that.