[olug] Video conversion question.

[Timothy Goshinski]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> I've been working on converting my DVDs to Mpeg4 video files for quite a
> while.  I recently bought a Roku box to play with, and installed the
> community "MyMedia" app (channel) - this allows the Roku to access a server
> via a Python-based web server and play media.  The Roku is picky, and only
> likes H264 video, and the "AAC (faac)" audio (not AC3 or MP3), but I finally
> got Handbrake to rip and save this combination.
>
> My question is this:
> Is there a command line tool I can use to re-encode just the audio portion
> into AAC?  I think some of my past encodings had multiple audiotracks
> encoded, so it may be a matter of just re-ordering the audio or stripping
> out the AC3/MP3 stream so the Roku box can see it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan
>
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Would ffmpeg do the trick? http://www.rodrigopolo.com/ffmpeg/cheats.html

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