[mythtv-users] output from ffprobe

[John Pilkington]

On 07/01/2021 03:37, James Linder wrote:
> I tried to catch the output of mythffprobe. Failure.
> A quick browse os stack-exchange revealed one of their rare rubish sprouts
> (ffprobe does NOT write to stdout or stderr so trying to redirect those streams will fail)
> 
> /store/Movies [1025]% (mythffprobe Myth-G/The\ Grand\ Budapest\ Hotel.mp4) | less
> 
> looked promising (ie worked as expected)
> 
> but
> 
> /store/Movies [1025]% (mythffprobe Myth-G/The\ Grand\ Budapest\ Hotel.mp4) | cat > ~/probe
> 
> did not.
> Hours spent pouring over the manual (for a -o file type option) were fruitless.
> Anybody please . . .
> James

Perhaps this will help:  I think you want the 2>&1

{{{

# Get tech details of output file into the log.
CMD="  mythffprobe -hide_banner -v error -show_streams -show_format -of 
json   $filename "
echo "${CMD}" | tee -a ${logfile}
${CMD} 2>&1 | tee -a ${logfile}
echo

}}}