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I need to extract audio out of MP4 video file using FFMPEG. Just extracting audio is easy enough but I can't figure out the right parameters to get audio in mono 8khz 16 bit.

Basically I need to take all of the audio channels out of the video file and merge them into a mono 8khz 16 bit file. Is it possible to do so with FFMPEG?

I tried running

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 2 audio.wav

Bit it's not giving me the exact result I want.

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  • Please define "all audio channels". Do they really need to be overlaid? Or do you just want to mix a stereo source into mono? What's your input video's audio channel layout? Please include the full, uncut command line output, otherwise we're just guessing.
    – slhck
    Oct 15, 2014 at 14:14

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Use -ac 1 (See the FFmpeg wiki, or the man page with man ffmpeg) to limit the output to one channel.

Then use -ar 8000 for 8kHz and -acodec pcm_s16le for 16 bit.

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