I tried to convert an flv file that my TV doesn't like to mp4 with ffmpeg but all I got was "protocol not found"... As it turns out, the file was named Teinipomo-2014-07-11T19:30:05.flv and apparently that somehow confuses ffmpeg to think there's some kind of a protocol involved instead of a file. But really that's an ISO 8601 format standard date and time there so shouldn't that be handled better than just "protocol not found"?
$ ffmpeg -i Teinipomo-2014-07-11T19:30:05.flv -codec copy t.mp4 ffmpeg version 1.0.9 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers built on May 2 2014 12:55:13 with gcc 4.7 (Debian 4.7.2-5) configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-cflags='-g -O2 -fstack-protector -- param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security ' --extra-ldflags='- Wl,-z,relro' --cc='ccache cc' --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac -- enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable- libtheora --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable- libx264 --enable-libspeex --enable-nonfree --disable-stripping --enable-libvpx --enable-libschroedinger --disable-encoder=libschroedinger --enable-version3 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-avfilter --enable-libfreetype -- enable-libvo-aacenc --disable-decoder=amrnb --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable- libaacplus --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vda --enable-libbluray --enable-libcdio --enable-gnutls --enable-frei0r --enable-openssl --enable- libass --enable-libopus --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfdk-aac --enable- libdc1394 --disable-altivec --dis libavutil 51. 73.101 / 51. 73.101 libavcodec 54. 59.100 / 54. 59.100 libavformat 54. 29.104 / 54. 29.104 libavdevice 54. 2.101 / 54. 2.101 libavfilter 3. 17.100 / 3. 17.100 libswscale 2. 1.101 / 2. 1.101 libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100 libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100 Teinipomo-2014-07-11T19:30:05.flv: Protocol not found _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user