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Asked: 2026-05-28T05:17:33+00:00

I am trying to make a bashscript to allow mass converting a couple of

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I am trying to make a bashscript to allow mass converting a couple of moviefiles with the help of ffmpeg.

ffmpeg works great alone by itself, but when I run it as shown below – nothing seems to become appended to my logfile. What am I doing wrong?

ffmpeg -i "$input" -c:v mpeg4 -vtag divx -sameq -aspect 16:9 -r 25 "$output" >> ~/Desktop/logfile.txt
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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this instead:

    ffmpeg -i "$input" -c:v mpeg4 -vtag divx -sameq -aspect 16:9 -r 25 "$output" > ~/Desktop/logfile.txt  2>&1

    It redirect both STDOUT and STDERR. Some bits shorter version is:

    ffmpeg -i "$input" -c:v mpeg4 -vtag divx -sameq -aspect 16:9 -r 25 "$output" &>> ~/Desktop/logfile.txt
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