ffprobe The input line is too long. ☺ was unexpected at this time.

[M Toma]

Summary of the bug:
How to reproduce:

cd C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia
set PATH=C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin;%PATH%
ffprobe -show_streams MVI_0882_mp2.MOV > MVI_0882_mp2.txt


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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
.......
ams MVI_0882_mp2.MOV > MVI_0882_mp2.txt
The input line is too long.
☺ was unexpected at this time.

Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list and not this bug tracker.

[M Toma]

I can see unexpected character (☺) copying from command prompt windows to a blank html.

The input line is too long.<br>
&#9786; was unexpected at this time.<br>
<br>

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Replying to mmtoma:
Is this also reproducible if you do not try to set a new path, ie:

cd C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia
..\..\..\..\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin\ffprobe -show_streams MVI_0882_mp2.MOV > MVI_0882_mp2.txt

?

[M Toma]

I have some example when it work fine

cd C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\myDoc\Kate\exemplu\23-ffprobe
set PATH=C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin;%PATH%
ffprobe -show_streams  MVI_0882_mp3.MOV > show_streams_MVI_0882_mp3-04.txt
ffprobe -show_streams  MVI_0882_mp2.MOV > show_streams_MVI_0882_mp2-04.txt

and this also work (what you ask for)

cd C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia
..\..\..\..\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin\ffprobe -show_streams MVI_0882_mp2.MOV > MVI_0882_mp2-04.txt

The next doesn't work

cd C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia
set PATH=C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin;%PATH%
ffprobe -show_streams  MVI_0882_mp3.MOV > show_streams_MVI_0882_mp3.txt
ffprobe -show_streams  MVI_0882_mp2.MOV > show_streams_MVI_0882_mp2.txt

What I got is:

file: show_streams_MVI_0882_mp3.txt

C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia>cd C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia 

C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia>set PATH=C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin;C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\OEM\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\OEM\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\OEM\12.0\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Roxio\OEM\AudioCore\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\ 

C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia>ffprobe -show_streams  C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video-data\MVI_0882.MOV   1>show_streams-MVI_0882.txt 

and file: show_streams-MVI_0882.txt (not show_streams_MVI_0882_mp2.txt)

C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia>cd C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia 

C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia>set PATH=C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin;%PATH%

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Replying to mmtoma:

and this also work (what you ask for)

cd C:\2012\2012-12-15\audio\video\kenia\exemple\28-convert-kenia
..\..\..\..\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin\ffprobe -show_streams MVI_0882_mp2.MOV > MVI_0882_mp2-04.txt

Imo, this indicates that there is no bug that the FFmpeg developers could fix, please google "The input line is too long" to find information about limitations of the Windows shell (and possible work-arounds).