Wednesday, 21 March 2018

ffmpeg - replace audio in video


How to replace the audio in a video file using an audio file using ffmpeg?


I imagine the command looks like:


ffmpeg -i v.mp4 -i a.wav -MAGIC video-new.mp4

This is very similar to How to replace an audio stream in a video file with multiple audio streams? but that question handles multiple audio tracks, which complicates it very much, making it unclear which part of the solution is enough for a simple audio swap.



Answer



You will want to copy the video stream without re-encoding to save a lot of time but re-encoding the audio might help to prevent incompatibilities:


ffmpeg -i v.mp4 -i a.wav -c:v copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 new.mp4

-map 0:v:0 maps the first (index 0) video stream from the input to the first (index 0) video stream in the output.


-map 1:a:0 maps the second (index 1) audio stream from the input to the first (index 0) audio stream in the output.


If the audio is longer than the video, you will want to add -shortest before the output file name.


Not specifying an audio codec, will automatically select a working one. You can specify one by for example adding -c:a libvorbis after -c:v copy.


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