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I am looking to create an mp3 of silence that is the same duration as the input video file using either ffmpeg or mencoder.

Using ffmpeg I have tried this:

ffmpeg -y -i in.avi -ab 8k -ac 1 -vol 0 -acodec libmp3lame out.mp3

Which works great if the video has an audio track but fails miserably if it does not.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Do you have to use ffmpeg for this? It stands to reason that any attempt to extract audio that isn't actually there would fail. It would be a relatively straightforward task to 1) create a blank WAV file of the same length as the video, then 2) convert the blank WAV to an MP3 with any number of tools. – MusiGenesis Oct 25 '11 at 18:06
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You can add silent audio to a video with ffmpeg -shortest -ar 44100 -acodec pcm_s16le -f s16le -ac 2 -i /dev/zero -i in.avi -vcodec copy -acodec libmp3lame out.avi -map 1:0 -map 0:0 – Banthar Oct 25 '11 at 18:15
No, I don't have a strict requirement for ffmpeg; my requirement is to create the silent mp3 that is the same length as the video and to be able to use a command line tool for this. I suppose I should have asked a slightly different question to reflect that. – mirswith Nov 2 '11 at 16:36

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