Re: Converting *.mp4 to *.mp3 or *.ogg
When the date was Thursday 15 of July 2010, AG wrote:
> Hey all
>
> What recommendations would you have for an app to convert *.mp4 to
> either *.mp3 or *.ogg?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> AG
>
I used a script like this (I just rewrote it from the top of my head, so
this one is untested):
EXT="mp4"
DEST="/home/michael/music"
for F in *.${EXT}; do
N=${F/$EXT/wav}
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm -aofile "${DEST}/${N}" "$F"
normalize "${DEST}/${N}"
lame --verbose -q 2 --abr 192 "${DEST}/${N}" "${DEST}/${F/$EXT/mp3}"
done
The catch with this over-engineered and occasionally inefficient script was
that I would use it for both random audio formats and video files to extract
the audio track (think presentation-to-podcast-like conversion).
--
Michael Iatrou
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