Re: Downmixing Surround Flac to Stereo.

2017-10-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
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

Re: Downmixing Surround Flac to Stereo.

2017-10-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
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