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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 04:13:49 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
Subject: Re: Dropping audio in ffmpeg conversion
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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.



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Polytropon
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