How can I strip the audio track out of a video file with FFmpeg?
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asked Apr 9 '11 at 16:50
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You remove audio by using the -an flag.
ffmpeg -i example.mkv -c copy -an example-nosound.mkv
Full ffmpeg documentation here.
answered Apr 9 '11 at 17:03
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You probably don't want to reencode the video (a slow and lossy process), so try:
ffmpeg -i [input_file] -vcodec copy -an [output_file]
(n.b. some Linux distributions now come with the avconv fork of ffmpeg)
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1vcodec is an alias for
-c:v, so specifically it'd copy the video stream only. The only data you're preventing with this would be subtitles, metadata, etc from what I can see. – Rogue Mar 8 '18 at 15:48
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avconv -i [input_file] -vcodec copy -an [output_file]
If you cannot install ffmpeg because of existing of avconv try that .
