Raspbian, avprobe "Failed to set value '-loglevel' for option 'hide_banner'"

[johna777]

Piwigo 2.9.4. Running videoJS 2.9.b. avconv and avprobe installed by apt-get. Entered path for them and ran sync rebuilding thumbnails. This displays:

ffprobe error reading file. Is ffprobe install? Is ffprobe in path?
Is the video accessible & readable, Try to run the command manually.
/usr/bin/avprobe -hide_banner -loglevel fatal -show_error -show_format -show_streams -print_format json './galleries/john/family/Kathryn/Hiccups.MP4'

Running the command manually displays:
Failed to set value '-loglevel' for option 'hide_banner'

If I delete the "hide-banner" option and rerun the command it works. BTW, it did not display a banner.

[unnilennium]

same issue on a centos 6 system using ffmpeg

I had to remove also
-show_programs
-show_chapters
which are in the executed command but not on the ones displayed

ffprobe -hide_banner -show_error -show_format -show_streams -print_format json './galleries/2019/Nicolas/IMG_8948.mp4'

ffprobe version 0.10.16 Copyright (c) 2007-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built on Aug 26 2016 13:01:36 with gcc 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --arch=x86_64 --extra-cflags='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' --enable-bzlib --disable-crystalhd --enable-gnutls --enable-libass --enable-libcdio --enable-libcelt --enable-libdc1394 --disable-indev=jack --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-openal --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-avfilter --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug --disable-stripping --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 51. 35.100 / 51. 35.100
libavcodec 53. 61.100 / 53. 61.100
libavformat 53. 32.100 / 53. 32.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 61.100 / 2. 61.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 6.100 / 0. 6.100
libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100
Unrecognized option 'hide_banner'
Failed to set value '-show_error' for option 'hide_banner'

if I delete -hide_banner from the php script the error keeps displaying

[unnilennium]

here is the fix : ./plugins/piwigo-videojs/include/ffprobe.php

$json = shell_exec($sync_options['ffprobe'] ." -loglevel fatal -show_error -show_format -show_streams -show_private_data -print_format json "". $filename.""");
if (!isset($json) or empty($json))
die("ffprobe error reading file. Is ffprobe install? Is ffprobe in path?
Is the video accessible & readable, Try to run the command manually.
". $sync_options['ffprobe'] ." -loglevel fatal -show_error -show_format -show_streams -print_format json '". $filename ."'");
$output = json_decode($json, true);
//print_r($output);
} catch (Exception $e) {
die("ffprobe error reading file. Is ffprobe install? Is ffprobe in path?
Is the video accessible & readable, Try to run the command manually.
". $sync_options['ffprobe'] ." -loglevel fatal -show_error -show_format -show_streams -print_format json '". $filename ."'");
}

[johna777]

Thanks for the suggestions, and sorry for the delay in trying it. Life happens. :) The avprobe command still fails on the shell_exec command. (I modified the die text to see if it was the shell_exec or the json_decode that was failing). Interestingly your modified error message showing the command to run manually works fine. It runs in a terminal window. No output. Wasn't expecting any. no errors.

I'm not sure what I lose with just getting a warning about no metadata.

The code above has a problem with escape characters on the double quotes near the end of the line. It should look like the original line I presume. right?

[johna777]

I'm using raspbian Stretch by the way.