[Bug 380165] [NEW] FFMpeg exits with non-zero code when it is asked for version or supported formats

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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ffmpeg

I have Ubuntu 8.04, 64 bit edition. Normally, any unix program should
return 0 when it finished without errors. But when I run "ffmpeg
-version", return code is 1. Similar, when I run "ffmpeg -formats" it
also return 1. This bug is fixed in latest svn version and in Ubuntu
9.04.

nmn at omd1:~$ ffmpeg -version
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
  libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
  libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
  libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
  built on Mar 16 2009 21:19:49, gcc: 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
ffmpeg      SVN-rUNKNOWN
libavutil   3212032
libavcodec  3352064
libavformat 3344896
nmn at omd1:~$ echo $?
1
nmn at omd1:~$ aptitude show ffmpeg
Package: ffmpeg
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 3:0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 705k
Depends: libavcodec1d (>= 0.cvs20070307), libavformat1d (>= 0.cvs20070307), libavutil1d (>= 0.cvs20070307), libc6 (>= 2.7), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5),
         libimlib2, libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), libswscale1d (>= 0.cvs20070307)
Description: multimedia player, server and encoder
 This package contains the ffplay multimedia player, the ffserver streaming server and the ffmpeg audio and video encoder. They support most existing file
 formats (AVI, MPEG, OGG, Matroska, ASF...) and encoding formats (MPEG, DivX, MPEG4, AC3, DV...).

nmn at omd1:~$


Looking to the source code of ffmpeg (that I get with apt-src) I found , that the problem is in show_version() and similar info functions. They print necessary information and than there is "exit(1)". It is very easy to fix this bug!

** Affects: ffmpeg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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FFMpeg exits with non-zero code when it is asked for version or supported formats
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380165
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