How to force ffmpeg into non-interactive mode?

ffmpeg stdin interactive non-interactive
ubershmekel picture ubershmekel · Feb 6, 2015 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

Sometimes you want ffmpeg to ask you whether it should overwrite a file. Sometimes it's just a script that you prefer would fail if something is amiss. I.e. don't rely on stdin to answer if you have a question.

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ubershmekel picture ubershmekel · Feb 6, 2015

See https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Main-options

-stdin - Enable interaction on standard input. On by default unless a pipe is detected.

-nostdin - To explicitly disable console interactions. Without -y this will cause ffmpeg to error out if the target file exists.

-y - To overwrite the output file

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