So, you want to extract some audio from a video ey? Sure! No problem! You can do just that using ffmpeg, here’s the command string.
In this example, i’ll extract the whole audio track to a mp3 file, with a 320k bit (constant) rate and 44100hz audio rate (high quality mp3):
ffmpeg -i “whatever.format” -vn -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 320k -f mp3 output.mp3
Here’s a short explanation on what every parameter does:
- -i “input file”
- -vn “skip the video part”
- -ac “audio channels”
- -ar “audio rate”
- -ab “audio bit-rate“
- -f “file format to use”
- (the end if the string) “output file”
NOTE: I am not responsible for any copyrighted material (ex, music videos) that get’s converted to audio using this method.
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Hi,
You can use an Online Video to MP3 Converter to download website video as MP3.
I am aware of such websites Jack, though I prefer to do it myself. If you use ffmpeg on your local client, you have more control in what kind if parameters you want to use. Such as bit-rate and audio-rate.
I recommend using this Video Downloader, a free program for downloading and converting YouTube videos.
The program enables you to download a video from any site and convert it to any format, including MP3, Avi, QuickTime, iPod, iPhone, etc.
Thanks!
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -acodec copy -o output.m4a wouldn’t re-encode the audio (if it was AAC). You can see the formats of the audio streams with ffmpeg -i input.mkv.
short, sweet and works, thanks. I use ‘wav’ as output type. Just for those who same as me: i.e. don’t know where to get info from orig file, do: ffmpeg -i input_video, and look for, something like this:
Stream #0.1: Audio: libspeex, 16000 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 27 kb/s
Then the command is
ffmpeg -i input_video -vn -ar 16000 -ac 1 -ab 27 -f wav output_audio.wav
How do you extract the original audio from the video file?
The answer is hidden in two responses to same topic
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9913032/ffmpeg-to-extract-audio-from-video
1.) ffmpeg -i
seems to display the stream formats, implying the audio file extension
2.) ffmpeg -i -vn -acodec copy output-audio.
seems to perform a raw copy of the audio stream
No need to convert man, the title says “extract”, you should update your post with Lauri suggestion, because you rank high on google when searching for this