[FFmpeg-user] mkv to avi errors

[Rick C.]

On May 27, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Jon Drukman wrote:

> Rick C. <rickcorteza <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Great thanks for the quick replies.  I actually thought lame could do surround
> (obviously I was wrong) or
>> either that FFmpeg would downmix it automatically (I guess not the case).  If
> I would specify -ac 2 then it
>> should work correct?
>> 
>> And yes to avoid losing my surround I will go ac3.  Thank you!
> 
> -ac 2 will give you a stereo mp3.  if you want to preserve the ac3, just use
> -acodec copy.


Great thanks again!