Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 04:13:49 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dropping audio in ffmpeg conversion Message-ID: <20141207041349.9617643c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20141207002108.GA96985@ozzmosis.com> References: <20141206234358.0b17f55f.freebsd@edvax.de> <20141207002108.GA96985@ozzmosis.com>
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On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 11:21:08 +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > On Sat 2014-12-06 23:43:58 UTC+0100, Polytropon (freebsd@edvax.de) wrote: > > > I'm searching for a convenient way to drop audio from > > an AVI file (video and audio) upon conversion to MP4. > > My tool of choice is ffmpeg, which works perfectly fine > > with the default options: > > > > % ffmpeg -i in.avi out.mp4 > > ffmpeg -i in.avi -an out.mp4 > > Order of the arguments is important. This won't work as expected: > > ffmpeg -an -i in.avi out.mp4 Thanks to all who answered - this is exactly what I needed, and it works as expected. You may conclude the amount of my stupidity by the fact that I did _not_ find this in "man ffmpeg", even though an explicit search for "-an" answered the question. ;-) By the way, the SYOPSIS on top of "man ffmpeg" states the fact that input options come first, _then_ output options. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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