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n3wton
n3wton

Reputation: 35

exec.Command error, no output to stdout or stderr

I am trying to get the duration of a video using ffprobe and exec.Command but I keep getting an error. However, stdout and stderr are both empty so I don't know what the problem is. 

func getVideoLength(filename string) float64 {
cmd := exec.Command("ffprobe", "-i", filename, "-show_entries", "format=duration", "-v", "quiet", "-of", "csv=\"p=0\"")
fmt.Println("ffprobe", "-i", filename, "-show_entries", "format=duration", "-v", "quiet", "-of", "csv=\"p=0\"")
    var out bytes.Buffer
    var stderr bytes.Buffer
    cmd.Stdout = &out
    cmd.Stderr = &stderr
    err := cmd.Run()
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("out: " + out.String())
        fmt.Println("stderr: " + stderr.String())
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    length, err := strconv.ParseFloat(out.String(), 64)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

return length
}

Here is the output I get:

ffprobe -i amelie.mp4 -show_entries format=duration -v quiet -of csv="p=0"
out: 
stderr: 
2019/02/18 21:04:39 exit status 1

not very helpful.

Any ideas?. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1690

Answers (1)

Vorsprung
Vorsprung

Reputation: 34367

The reason you aren't getting any clues is that you have set the command to not say anything. From the ffprobe docs

-loglevel [flags+]loglevel | -v [flags+]loglevel Set logging level and flags used by the library. ....

loglevel is a string or a number containing one of the following values:

‘quiet, -8’ Show nothing at all; be silent.

Upvotes: 2

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