[mdlug] Speaking of audio formats...

David Lee Lambert davidl at lmert.com
Sun Jan 3 18:06:28 EST 2010


Carl T. Miller wrote:
> Look at ffmpeg.  It can convert almost any type of multimedia
> format into any other format.  And it supports multiple codecs
> for use with formats that use encoding.
>
> Try this first to see if you need to use settings other than
> the defaults.
>
>   ffmpeg -i video1.??? soundtrack1.mp3
>   
Thanks,  that's exactly what I needed. 

Responding to Aaron's suggestion to use FLAC:  I wanted to put one of 
the songs on my son's baby-proof portable music player,  which only 
accepts MP3 and WMA.  It works fine now.


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DLL



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