playing mp4 files downloaded with getiplayere on my blu player

[Shevek]

On 12 June 2011 12:09, chris chery <chrischery at free.fr> wrote:
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> i have asked  the question before  but i ve gotnowhere
> My blu player philips bdp 2500 will play the  avc video but not the audio aac of the mp4 files downloaded with get_iplayer
> is there anyway I can keep the avc video signal( as any conversion would lead to a drop in picture quality) and convert the aac audio to something else (MP3 etc) and get it to play?
> thanks everybody

ffmpeg can do this.

You need to make sure that you include the following to ensure that
the video is not touched:

-vcodec copy

and set the -acodec option to what you want for audio output

A basic option for mp3 is listed here: http://howto-pages.org/ffmpeg/#basicaudio

HTH

Shevek