Willing wheels

Let’s say you want to extract sound track of you .flv file and save it under .mp3 format.

It should be very easy if you follow these steps:

1. ensure ffmpeg package is installed (audio/video converter) along with libavcodec-extra-52 package (which contains mp4 codec)

   sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-52

2. run the following command:

   ffmpeg -i video1.flv -f mp3 track1.mp3

That’s it!
Your file should be converted by now.

Note

At first, I had the following error when running ffmpeg:

Unsupported codec for output stream #0.0

This was solved by installing  ”libavcodec-extra-52” package as suggested above.

sources

• http://en.gibney.org/convert_flv_files_to_mp3/
• http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1037286.html

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