ffmpeg: Unable to find a suitable output format for '–i'

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Use - (hyphen), not (en dash).

  • Correct: -i
  • Incorrect: –i
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Updated on July 07, 2022

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  • John Doe
    John Doe almost 2 years

    I am not sure why, but I cannot seem to get a watermark rendered on the bottom right corner of my video using ffmpeg.

    I am using the following command:

    $ ffmpeg –i faded.mov -vf "movie=logo2.png [watermark]; [in][watermark] overlay=(main_w-overlay_w-10)/2:(main_h-overlay_h-10)/2 [out]" outputvideo3.mov
    ...
    [NULL @ 0x7fa2ec001000] Unable to find a suitable output format for '–i'
    –i: Invalid argument