Record audio with ffmpeg

[henrik]

Hi there,

 

I've been wasting many hours trying to figure out the following:

 

- I can use ffmpeg in my Terminal without problems

- when using ffmpeg in a workflow (bash), I get "[22:27:01.911] ERROR: 0 Record and Transcribe[Run Script] /Users/henrikpetersen/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/F0EC9245-15A1-413D-BCD3-9D2A1FF7C06E: line 24: 19662 Abort trap: 6           $FFMPEG_PATH -f avfoundation -i ":0" -t 5 -loglevel verbose "$RECORDINGS_DIR/$FILENAME" 2>&1"

 

My script is the following:

 

# Set the directory and file name
RECORDINGS_DIR="/Users/henrikpetersen/My_Drive/Recordings"
mkdir -p "$RECORDINGS_DIR"
FILENAME="recording_$(date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S").wav"

# Path to ffmpeg
FFMPEG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg"

# Check if ffmpeg is available
if ! [ -x "$FFMPEG_PATH" ]; then
  echo "ffmpeg not found at $FFMPEG_PATH"
  exit 1
fi

# Kill any existing instances of ffmpeg
pkill -x ffmpeg

# Wait a moment to ensure the process has been terminated
sleep 1

# Record the audio
$FFMPEG_PATH -f avfoundation -i ":0" -t 5 -loglevel verbose "$RECORDINGS_DIR/$FILENAME" 2>&1

# Check if recording was successful
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Recording failed"
  exit 1
else
  echo "Recording saved to $RECORDINGS_DIR/$FILENAME"
fi

 

 

- Any ideas?

- I realized that Alfred has Full Disk Access but is not listed under the microphone accessibility; but I also don't know how to trigger the accessibility for Alfred

 

Best,

Henrik 

[sepulchra]

@henrik There are others here with more advanced skillsets here who may be able to help if you share your workflow and debugger. The pages below might help you in the meantime.

 

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/advanced/understanding-scripting-environment/

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/kb/reading-environment-variables/