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From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Subject: Re: Dropping audio in ffmpeg conversion
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On Sat 2014-12-06 23:43:58 UTC+0100, Polytropon (freebsd@edvax.de) wrote:

> I'm searching for a convenient way to drop audio from
> an AVI file (video and audio) upon conversion to MP4.
> My tool of choice is ffmpeg, which works perfectly fine
> with the default options:
> 
> 	% ffmpeg -i in.avi out.mp4

ffmpeg -i in.avi -an out.mp4

Order of the arguments is important. This won't work as expected:

ffmpeg -an -i in.avi out.mp4