[FFmpeg-user] Converting Audible AAX

2016-01-01 Thread Paul W
Hi, I am trying to use to new ffmpeg Audible AAX decoder. The ffmpeg docs mention the -activation_bytes option, but ffmpeg keeps throwing an error when I use it. http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Audible-AAX I have tried ffmpeg 2.7, 2.8.4 and the latest snapshot. None seem to work. What am I

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Converting Audible AAX

2016-01-01 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Paul W gmail.com> writes: > $ ffmpeg -activation_bytes -i example.aax What does ffmpeg -i example.aax show? (The option only works if the aax file is correctly identified.) Carl Eugen ___ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Converting Audible AAX

2016-01-01 Thread Paul W
Thanks Carl! I tried a different file and it worked! Must have been an issue with the file. On 2 January 2016 at 12:50, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Paul W gmail.com> writes: > > > $ ffmpeg -activation_bytes -i example.aax > > What does ffmpeg -i example.aax show? > (The option only works

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Converting Audible AAX

2016-01-11 Thread Robert Chalmers
Carl Eugen Hoyos ag.or.at> writes: > > Paul W gmail.com> writes: > > > $ ffmpeg -activation_bytes -i example.aax > > What does ffmpeg -i example.aax show? > (The option only works if the aax file is > correctly identified.) > > Carl Eugen > > __

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Converting Audible AAX

2016-01-13 Thread G A
they are encrypted files, ffmpeg is not going to crack it Audible AAX files are encrypted M4B files, and they can be decrypted by specifying a 4 byte activation secret. -- View this message in context: http://ffmpeg-users.933282.n4.nabble.com/Converting-Audible-AAX-tp4673787p4674063.html Sent

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Converting Audible AAX

2016-01-14 Thread Robert Chalmers
They can actually be unencoded if you have the activation key. ffmpeg -activation_bytes 62689101 -i Volume1.aax -vn -c:a copy -v debug Voume1.mp4 This is now my error message. [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f968400] [aax] file checksum == d72f1f04e3c73d0bc68e742db1bc69b58dc3a500 [mov,mp4,m4

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Converting Audible AAX

2016-01-14 Thread Moritz Barsnick
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:33:41 +, Robert Chalmers wrote: > [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f968400] [aax] file checksum == > d72f1f04e3c73d0bc68e742db1bc69b58dc3a500 > [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f968400] [aax] mismatch in checksums! > [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f968400] error

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Converting Audible AAX

2016-01-14 Thread Robert Chalmers
Thanks. I solved the problem. There is a script for grabbing the activation code from the registered audible account. That is, you have to have an Audible login account, and books in your library. The original has a small error, so I forked it from Github, and applied the patch. Well, the patch