Typically, there are two streams: one video stream, and one audio stream. Video files usually are container files that, in turn, contain at least one stream of media content. Wikipedia: FFmpeg#Codecs.2C_formats_and_protocols_supported 'ffmpeg audio format conversions' provides many command line examples for conversion from many combinations of different video and audio encodings. aac) AAC Advanced Audio Codec for iPods) using FFmpeg) Many audio player devices support compression algorithms (formats) (encodings) other than. ( from: See, in particular: jfreak53's posting to the thread.)įfmpeg -i audio.aac -acodec libmp3lame audio.mp3 How to convert media files using FFmpeg is an article / guide on this very website (wiki).įfmpeg -i audio.aac -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ab 160 audio.mp3 mp3 for listening on a portable audio device. It is possible to convert the audio of a video that you downloaded (or any audio file, for that matter) to.

Run 'ffmpeg -i (input/source media file) (newfile)' e.g.: ' ffmpeg -i old.avi new.mp4'.

Ffmpeg by itself is a simple media converter.

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