I m looking for a solution to replace the audio in a video file, without re encoding the video...the idea is to render a first draw of a film and then replace the audio in process of editing the sound design, without touching the picture (and making lossy renderings from there.. )


do you have an idea how this could be done? i guess with an ffmpeg command this should be possible, but i m so bad with the commandline i m afraid.. if anyone could give me an example how to type this in? i searched the forums and found that the optin

-codec copy

should make it possible? But how would i do that, saying i have a video.mp4 and want to replace the

sounda.wav

with a

soundb.wav

?


Thank you

What you want to do is called remuxing and muxing: Separate video and audio from a container. Then you want to mux the new audio and video. Maybe this article helps: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293 ... ping-issue

thanks capslock,

it s easier to search for when you know the right terms, I ll look it up ...

think it worked out!

i used this command to change the audio of a video file , hopefully without re encoding the video

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fmpeg -i input.mp4 -i input.mp3 -c copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 output.mp4

difficulty i had was: i wanted to use a .wav file as the sound source, but this didnt work out, i had to convert the audio to aac before with audacity...

kalimerox wrote:think it worked out!

i used this command to change the audio of a video file , hopefully without re encoding the video

f

Code: Select all

fmpeg -i input.mp4 -i input.mp3 -c copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 output.mp4

difficulty i had was: i wanted to use a .wav file as the sound source, but this didnt work out, i had to convert the audio to aac before with audacity...

If you did something liiiikkkee:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i input.wav -acodec aac -vcodec copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 output.mp4

that would have recoded the wav to whatever you wanted (aac in this case), you can specify which streams you want to copy or not.

ha, thanks!