avconv – Accidents Happen https://ah.thameera.com In the dark Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:23:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 56521109 Converting a video to an mp3 via terminal https://ah.thameera.com/converting-a-video-to-an-mp3-via-terminal/ https://ah.thameera.com/converting-a-video-to-an-mp3-via-terminal/#comments Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:23:51 +0000 http://ah.thameera.com/?p=530 The days we had to remember dozens of ffmpeg flags has long gone. avconv is easy as easy could be.

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53 libav-tools

To convert video.mp4 to song.mp3, all you need to do is,

avconv -i video.mp4 audio.mp3

It’s so easy it just hurts. 😯

You can of course give avconv a dozen flags to tune the output to your will, but you just need a simple conversion 90% of the time.

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