[FFmpeg-user] How can I get byte-accurate segments?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Grant Curtis <codercurtis <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I'm working with a Speech-to-text service that wants audio 
> files that are exactly 160kb large, which means 80,000 
> 16-bit samples
> 
> So far I've converted my video stream into an audio file 
> with a sampling rate of 16,000 and converted it to s16le. 
> Now I just have to grab 80,000 samples out of it.
> 
> Is there any way to do that?

I may misunderstand your question (others interpreted it 
differently) but what's wrong with -aframes?
$ ffmpeg -i input -ar 16k -aframes 80000 out.sw
(or the split shell command...)

Carl Eugen