The Blaze ET still choked on the stereo.flac produced by the ffmpeg
example, but I was at least able to get it to play on my desktop
without it sounding like most of the audio was missing, though I'm
starting to think my original problem was mkvextract not knowing how
to deal with audio streams in
Yes, this is what I do all the time with mkv files. I have created a
couple scripts, e.g.
#!/bin/bash
#Use ffmpeg to extract 16bit to audio.wav
#One argument is input file
ffmpeg -i "$1" -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 2 audio.wav
From there I can "flac -best" or "oggenc -q 10" or whatever.
I generally