[FFmpeg-user] Stereo WMA to right / left mono WMA without reencoding

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Tue Oct 8 12:26:43 CEST 2013


Tim Hiles <timothyhiles <at> gmail.com> writes:

> All i want to do is split a stereo wma file into left 
> and right mono files without reencoding

This is simply impossible, please try to read something 
about audio encoding.
(I cannot really explain.)

> ... i.e. no conversion to wav.

Depending on how you mean it, this is of course possible.
(But since wav usually contains lossless codecs, it makes 
no difference if you convert to wav and then to another 
file format or to any other file format directly.)

Carl Eugen



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