[FFmpeg-user] audio streams

[Rick C.]

On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Tim Nicholson wrote:

> On 10/01/12 13:19, Rick C. wrote:
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> I know that if a video has multiple audio streams that FFmpeg by default selects the "best" one and uses it, but is there a way to have all audio streams encoded in this case?  Thanks!
> 
> 
> Yes, use -map and/or -map_channel as per the docs, or more simply if you only have one video -map 0 will ensure all incoming streams end up in the output stream...
> 
> -- 
> Tim
> 

So I have tried a few conversions with -map 0 and I can see that all the streams are being added, but I also experienced that the conversion never finishes and the ffmpeg output just hangs.  It might be something with the specific videos I tried because they actually have 2 video streams.  I will do some more testing but my question would be when I use -map it says the defaults are overridden.  Is there not a way to allow all audio streams to come through for example, but for the video/subtitle streams keep the default behavior?  Something like this is close:

-map 0:a -map 0:v:0 -map 0:s:0

But then it would always take the first video stream and not the video stream with the highest resolution...

Thanks!

rc