jjaco

Ah, I begin to understand. I need the {} in the second instance because I would have "f.mp4" as variable name otherwise, right?
And I could write "${f}" in the first instance as well, correct?

Yay, this works!! Thanks a ton.

Could you point me to an explanation why working with the input as argv works? I now have this workflow, which is great. But when I want to create new ones, I can't ask you every time for your help 😉

In particular, why do I write $f in the first instance and ${f} in the second?

Ah, cool, almost there!
Now it works as long as I don't have any spaces in the filenames. Somehow the escaping seems not to work. The bug report is:

[12:13:33.077] ERROR: Convert flv to mp4[Run Script] ffmpeg version 3.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.1.1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-opencl --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid --disable-lzma --enable-vda
  libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
  libavcodec     57. 48.101 / 57. 48.101
  libavformat    57. 41.100 / 57. 41.100
  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
  libavfilter     6. 47.100 /  6. 47.100
  libavresample   3.  0.  0 /  3.  0.  0
  libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
  libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
/Users/me/Downloads/bsp: No such file or directory
ffmpeg version 3.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.1.1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-opencl --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid --disable-lzma --enable-vda
  libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
  libavcodec     57. 48.101 / 57. 48.101
  libavformat    57. 41.100 / 57. 41.100
  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
  libavfilter     6. 47.100 /  6. 47.100
  libavresample   3.  0.  0 /  3.  0.  0
  libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
  libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
copy.flv: No such file or directory

The filename is "bsp copy.flv". If I use "bsp_copy.flv", it works.

Since I don't understand yet how the "$f" and "${f}.mp4" work, I am still stuck… any hint appreciated!

Thanks, sounds good.

I made some mistake, though. Debugger says:

[12:00:14.053] Convert flv to mp4[File Action] Processing complete
[12:00:14.058] Convert flv to mp4[File Action] Passing output '(
    "/Users/me/Dropbox/Strassenszenen_Frankfurt_20er_Jahre.flv",
    "/Users/me/Dropbox/Paul.flv"
)' to Run Script
[12:00:14.077] ERROR: Convert flv to mp4[Run Script] /Users/me/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/0B1A8350-B332-46E9-966D-284D2305D6A1: line 2: ffmpeg: command not found
/Users/me/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/0B1A8350-B332-46E9-966D-284D2305D6A1: line 2: ffmpeg: command not found
/Users/me/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/0B1A8350-B332-46E9-966D-284D2305D6A1: line 2: ffmpeg: command not found
/Users/me/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/0B1A8350-B332-46E9-966D-284D2305D6A1: line 2: ffmpeg: command not found
/Users/me/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/0B1A8350-B332-46E9-966D-284D2305D6A1: line 2: ffmpeg: command not found
/Users/me/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/0B1A8350-B332-46E9-966D-284D2305D6A1: line 2: ffmpeg: command not found
/Users/me/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/0B1A8350-B332-46E9-966D-284D2305D6A1: line 2: ffmpeg: command not found
/Users/me/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/0B1A8350-B332-46E9-966D-284D2305D6A1: line 2: ffmpeg: command not found

I copied your script, the settings are in the image attached.

Any ideas?

I want to learn how to use the Workflow feature. And I want to understand how to do something with several files, not only one.

And my example project is making mp4 files from flv files without recoding. That is what I did with ffmpeg via Terminal before. 

I just want to execute the command above:

ffmpeg -i {query} -vcodec copy {query}.mp4

for all the files selected in Finder. I don't care if this happens one after the other or all together. Might be better if one after the other, so the machine is not blocked when processing too many at once.

I want do do a simple processing of several files with bash/Alfred file action. I am a bit embarrassed to ask, but I just don't get how to process several files. I read, Alfred passes the selected files to the workflow and I should use argv. But I searched the Forum and the web for hours, I found no example.

My script is easy as this: 

ffmpeg -i sys.argv[1] -vcodec copy sys.argv[1].mp4

But apparently, this is not how it works. The Debugger says "no matches found: sys.argv[1]" 

What does work, but only for single files:

ffmpeg -i {query} -vcodec copy {query}.mp4

When I run this for several files, Terminal asks me if I want to overwrite the existing file before doing anything else.

What am I missing? I know it is easy, but I could just not find an answer… Any hint appreciated!

Ah, this was the right tip! The problem was that I had the Escape Spaces option checked. Without it it works!!!

Thanks a lot again for your help!

Sorry, it still doesn't work :-(

Hm, still nothing. Here is what I did: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84747/gZip-Files.alfredworkflow

Thank you very much for your quick reply.

Unfortunately, I can't get it to work.

The File Action and Run Script I did set up, but invoking the workflow seems to do nothing.

Is it possible that there is a problem with the $-signs in the code?

I am new to bash, but shouldn't  $query and $element have a $-sign?

But adding them did not did the trick for me.

Neither did the script

gzip {query}

work for a single file. 

It seems so simple, but I am stuck - embarrassing. 

Hi,

I am trying to achieve something quite simple, but can't do it. I want a workflow which gzips all selected files in the Finder in an archive each.

So I created a hotkey, and a Terminal command with gzip - but to no avail. Just nothing happens, no error, nothing.

Any ideas to get me started?

Thanks in advance,

J

I love the new workflows, and I use it to rate my unrated songs. I created a Workflow that rates the current song and plays the next. The only problem is: it is highly unreliable.

I have an intelligent playlist in iTunes which contains only the unrated songs. In prior versions of iTunes, when a song was rated, it disappeared from the list and the next was played. But in the current version, playback stops. So I use I workflow which rates the song and issues a "Play/Pause" action. But 1 in 3 times, this command is issued before the rated song is purged from the list by iTunes, and so playback stops.

So: please add a "play" action to the workflow commands.

Thanks for considering this!