Can ffmpeg convert audio to raw PCM? If so, how?

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David van Geest picture David van Geest · Jan 31, 2011 · Viewed 93.2k times · Source

I'm currently using ffmpeg to convert FLV/Speex to WAV/pcm_s16le, successfully. However, I now need the output format to be RAW, that is, PCM signed 16-bit little endian, without the WAV header. I tried the following:

ffmpeg -y -i input.flv -vn -acodec pcm_s16le output.raw

But ffmpeg responds with:

Unable to find a suitable output format for 'output.raw'

I also tried using output.pcm and output as output file names, with the same result.

I also tried the -f flag to specify raw format, but that gives:

Unknown input or output format: raw

Is this possible with FFmpeg? If so, how?

Answer

Chris Haas picture Chris Haas · Jan 31, 2011

Give this a shot:

ffmpeg -i input.flv -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le output.raw

You can get these options by running:

ffmpeg -formats

See https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/audio%20types for details

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