[Slackbuilds-users] Invoke ffmpeg without configuration display

[Dave Woodfall]

On 10/02/21 14:48,
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> put forth the proposition:
> Each time I invoke ffmpeg I get a large heading:
> $ ffmpeg
> ffmpeg version 3.2.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
>   built with gcc 5.5.0 (GCC)
>   configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --docdir=/usr/doc/ffmpeg-3.2.4/html --mandir=/usr/man --disable-debug --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-avresample --arch=x86_64 --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-gnutls --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-opengl --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libpulse --enable-libsmbclient --enable-libwavpack --enable-x11grab
>   libavutil      55. 34.101 / 55. 34.101
>   libavcodec     57. 64.101 / 57. 64.101
>   libavformat    57. 56.101 / 57. 56.101
>   libavdevice    57.  1.100 / 57.  1.100
>   libavfilter     6. 65.100 /  6. 65.100
>   libavresample   3.  1.  0 /  3.  1.  0
>   libswscale      4.  2.100 /  4.  2.100
>   libswresample   2.  3.100 /  2.  3.100
>   libpostproc    54.  1.100 / 54.  1.100
> Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
> usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...
> Reading the man page and looking at the -help output I don't see a command
> line option for turning off all that information. Is there a way to do so?
> TIA,
> Rich

The option is -hide_banner.

alias ffmpeg='ffmpeg -hide_banner'

and you'll never see it again.

--
Dave

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