[olug] Video conversion question.

[Phil Brutsche]

Hypothetically ffmpeg can do everything you ask. I've not used it in
exactly the way you want, but I've used it to transcode MP3s into AACs
(aka M4A).

Something like this might work:

ffmpeg -i <input file> -vcodec copy -acodec aac -ab 128k <output file>

On 12/1/2010 10:13 AM, Dan Linder 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.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us