ffmpeg - Unknown input format: 'pulse' (EndlessOS, pavucontrol flatpak)

[bleuzen]

ffmpeg - Unknown input format: 'pulse' (EndlessOS, pavucontrol flatpak)

[Bleuzen]

My first guess is that your ffmpeg binary does not support pulse audio recording. As far as I know, these builds

John van Sickle

also do not have pulse audio support enabled.

I'm pretty sure you can not use ffmpeg from my FFaudioConverter flatpak, since it runs in a sandbox.

SpotRec is not planned to use some ffmpeg binary from a flatpak. SpotRec should run directly on the host machine and also use a native ffmpeg binary from the host, without any sandboxing.

The only thing you can safely run in a sandbox / with flatpak is Spotify.

I'm not sure about you distribution, but since it is Debian based, I guess you could try to use the Python, Dbus and FFmpeg installed with apt.

[btreut]

As far as I know, these builds

John van Sickle

also do not have pulse audio support enabled.

oops, that clarifies the behavior.

I'm pretty sure you can not use ffmpeg from my FFaudioConverter flatpak, since it runs in a sandbox.

I'll try my best despite your discouraging note and will post results here (but I might need some time).

[btreut]

I'm pretty sure you can not use ffmpeg from my FFaudioConverter flatpak, since it runs in a sandbox.

I'll try my best despite your discouraging note and will post results here (but I might need some time).

here we are:

a simple bash script containing

flatpak run --command=ffmpeg com.github.Bleuzen.FFaudioConverter $*

solves the problem of running ffmpeg from your FFaudioConverter flatpak, but the Unknown input format: 'pulse' remains, see spotrec.log

[btreut]

SpotRec should run directly on the host machine and also use a native ffmpeg binary from the host, without any sandboxing.

as far as I know, there is no native ffmpeg for EndlessOS. See also: https://community.endlessos.com/t/downloading-softwares/4988

[Bleuzen]

but the Unknown input format: 'pulse' remains

yeah, sure, since this ffmpeg is also not built with PulseAudio support.
You need a ffmpeg binary with pulse support enabled. If there is no native one for your distro, you may have to build it yourself.

I will close this for now, since this isn't an issue of SpotRec itself, but of your specific setup.