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Conversion utilities avprobe and avconv do not ship with newer distros #60

Closed pigeonflight closed 5 years ago

pigeonflight commented 5 years ago

wildcard.media depends on avprobe and avconv to perform conversions. Newer distros, for example Ubuntu 18.04 no longer ships with avprobe and avconv.

We need to consider having the convert.py utility support other alternative utilities for conversion.

pigeonflight commented 5 years ago

Apparently ffmpeg and ffprobe can act as drop in replacements for avconv and avprobe. On Ubuntu 18.04, I was able to create symlinks like this:

ln -s /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/avconv
ln -s /usr/bin/ffprobe /usr/bin/avprobe
senner commented 5 years ago

They are the same thing. Depends on the perspective of the product, and support group.