<p>Solved by clearing browser cache.</p>

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Sure? What's the relation between a bash script using ffmpeg with your browser? What if I have a lot of different browsers installed? Which one should its cache be cleared?
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sirshakir
<p>I am running a compression script to compress my large AVI files to small mp4 files. The script look like this:</p>
<pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>#!/bin/bash

FILEPATH=&quot;$1&quot;
COMPRESSIONPATH=&quot;$2&quot;

ffmpeg -i $FILEPATH -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 $COMPRESSIONPATH
sudo rm $FILEPATH
curl -H &quot;Content-Type:application/json&quot; -X GET &quot;http://localhost:3000/clovis/api/led&quot;
</code></pre>
<p>Whenever I save a compressed video with a filename of <code>compressedVideo#0.mp4</code> and open it; the newly compressed mp4 file contains footage of a very old video that I recorded and deleted about a week ago. It's almost as <code>ffmpeg</code> is cache that delete video and compressing any filename with <code>compressVideo#0.mp4</code> with the cached video. What might be the case here? How do I clear <code>ffmpeg</code> cache? Changing the filename fixes this issue, but I wanted to use the filename <code>compressedVideo#0.mp4</code>. There are a few filenames that won't work actually; <code>compressedVideo#0-4.mp4</code> all won't work. Depending on the filename used it loads the corresponding video that was created and delete long ago.</p>

<ffmpeg><mp4><compression>
ffmpeg clear video cache
sirshakir
# ffmpeg clear video cache

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-03-05)

I am running a compression script to compress my large AVI files to small mp4 files. The script look like this:
#!/bin/bash

FILEPATH="$1"
COMPRESSIONPATH="$2"

ffmpeg -i $FILEPATH -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 $COMPRESSIONPATH
sudo rm $FILEPATH
curl -H "Content-Type:application/json" -X GET "http://localhost:3000/clovis/api/led"

Whenever I save a compressed video with a filename of compressedVideo#0.mp4 and open it; the newly compressed mp4 file contains footage of a very old video that I recorded and deleted about a week ago. It's almost as ffmpeg is cache that delete video and compressing any filename with compressVideo#0.mp4 with the cached video. What might be the case here? How do I clear ffmpeg cache? Changing the filename fixes this issue, but I wanted to use the filename compressedVideo#0.mp4. There are a few filenames that won't work actually; compressedVideo#0-4.mp4 all won't work. Depending on the filename used it loads the corresponding video that was created and delete long ago.

**Tags:** ffmpeg, mp4, compression


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2019-03-05. Score: 3

Solved by clearing browser cache.

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Sure? What's the relation between a bash script using ffmpeg with your browser? What if I have a lot of different browsers installed? Which one should its cache be cleared?  

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