Automatic conversion of aac to m4a

[Andy Bircumshaw]

On 14/3/2011, at 3:24pm, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> ...
>> Absolutely agree that no further deps should be added to get_iplayer unless we're sure they're necessary.
>> 
>> Surely it must be possible with the tools we have already to remux properly.
> 
> 
> ... But I DID manage to successfully convert the AAC audio from the raw .flv file to MP3 using ffmpeg, e.g.
> 
> ffmpeg -i downloaded_file.flv -vn -ab 64k output.mp3

This is transcoding, not remuxing.

Transcoding is lossy, remuxing is not.

I would imagine that the vast majority of players should be able to play AAC these days, if it's formatted correctly.

aB.