Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:44:43 +0200 From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question re: batch conversion of m4a files.... Message-ID: <20060717144443.GE34231@vision.anyware> In-Reply-To: <44B72900.4060607@gmail.com> References: <20060714043346.GC44667@FS.denninger.net> <44B72900.4060607@gmail.com>
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* Brandon Cash:
> Well, I don't know of anything that does specifically that, but there is audio/faad and audio/lame. The purpose of faad
> is to read in various formats, and it can output wav. Likewise, LAME can read in wav and output mp3.
>
> With this in mind, you can have faad write to stdout, and have LAME read from stdin:
> faad -o - in.m4a | lame -h -b 128 - out.mp3
>
> If you wanted to put that in a script, you could just have it `sed' out the 'm4a' in favor of 'mp3' in the file name.
>
> Another option would be to use multimedia/mplayer, but I'm not sure of the syntax for that.
Yes, it works, just do "mplayer yourfile.m4a"
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Jean-Baptiste Quenot
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