Working Directory: null Environment: null

Question

I am trying to use ffmpeg.so on Android I am getting Working Directory: null Environment: null error.

try {
    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/data/data/com.example.foo/files/ffmpeg -f image2 -i "
+ Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/img/b%d.jpg " 
+ Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/DCIM/Camera/a444.mp4");   
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

ERROR LOG

04-09 01:50:45.683: I/Adreno-EGL(18393): <qeglDrvAPI_eglInitialize:320>: EGL 1.4 QUALCOMM Build: I0404c4692afb8623f95c43aeb6d5e13ed4b30ddbDate: 11/06/13
04-09 01:50:45.713: D/OpenGLRenderer(18393): Enabling debug mode 0
04-09 01:53:56.487: D/dalvikvm(18551): Trying to load lib /data/app-lib/com.example.sodeneme-1/libffmpeg.so 0x423d7d00
04-09 01:53:56.487: D/dalvikvm(18551): Added shared lib /data/app-lib/com.example.sodeneme-1/libffmpeg.so 0x423d7d00
04-09 01:53:56.487: D/dalvikvm(18551): No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/app-lib/com.example.sodeneme-1/libffmpeg.so 0x423d7d00, skipping init
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551): java.io.IOException: Error running exec(). Command: [/data/data/com.example.sodeneme/files/ffmpeg, -f, image2, -i, /storage/emulated/0/img/b%d.jpg, /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/a444.mp4] Working Directory: null Environment: null
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at java.lang.ProcessManager.exec(ProcessManager.java:211)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:173)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:246)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:189)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at com.example.sodeneme.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:40)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5231)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1087)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2159)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2245)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:135)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1196)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595)
04-09 01:53:56.537: W/System.err(18551):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
04-09 01:53:56.547: W/System.err(18551): Caused by: java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
04-09 01:53:56.547: W/System.err(18551):    at java.lang.ProcessManager.exec(Native Method)
04-09 01:53:56.547: W/System.err(18551):    at java.lang.ProcessManager.exec(ProcessManager.java:209)
04-09 01:53:56.547: W/System.err(18551):    ... 18 more
04-09 01:53:56.577: I/Adreno-EGL(18551): <qeglDrvAPI_eglInitialize:320>: EGL 1.4 QUALCOMM Build: I0404c4692afb8623f95c43aeb6d5e13ed4b30ddbDate: 11/06/13
04-09 01:53:56.607: D/OpenGLRenderer(18551): Enabling debug mode 0

PERMISSIONS

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_INTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_INTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS" />

Answer 1

Maybe you need to add this permission to your AndroidManifest.xml file:

android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Answer 2

You need to make sure that the /data/data/com.example.foo/files/ffmpeg file has the correct file permissions.

You can check file permission with the following command :

String[] command = new String[]{"/system/bin/ls", "-l",
                                "/data/data/com.example.foo/files/ffmpeg" };
Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
int read;

String output = "";

String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
    output.concat(line + "\n");
    Log.w("myApp", "[[output]]:" + line);
}  
reader.close();
process.waitFor(); 

The output would be something like this (depending on actual permissions , in this case the permissions are 777) :

[[output]]:-rwxrwxrwx u0_a67   u0_a67     254460 2015-03-02 17:12 ffmpeg

You can set the permissions to 744 , with the command below :

String[] command = new String[]{"/system/bin/chmod", "744",
                                "/data/data/com.example.foo/files/ffmpeg" };

If you are executing this command from outside activity (from a service lets say) , your permission will have to be 777 (not 744)

Answer 3

In my case you need to add "sh -c" as done in the following example:

sh -c shellcommand  

Hope it helps.

David

Answer 4

You are missing this before exec command:

try {
            ffmpeg.loadBinary(new LoadBinaryResponseHandler() {

                @Override
                public void onStart() {}

                @Override
                public void onFailure() {}

                @Override
                public void onSuccess() {}

                @Override
                public void onFinish() {}
            });
        } catch (FFmpegNotSupportedException e) {
            // Handle if FFmpeg is not supported by device
        }

Refer to: http://writingminds.github.io/ffmpeg-android-java/