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Is there a simple command-line utility for unix available to use to convert an .m4a audio file or .webm file (that I can generate from youtube-dl) to a wave (.wav) file?
I tried ffmpeg and it gives me errors when I tried converting to any output format and it also creates zero-byte files.
I also don't have avconv but when I looked at its documentation online I think it wants to install the same libraries ffmpeg already installed.
But rather than installing an elaborate package (as I am low on disk space), isn't there a simple utility that can do this task for unix?
Mike
Posted 2019-04-21T03:53:10.837
Reputation: 211
2I'd question the premise:
youtube-dlusesffmpegin some cases to convert the dashboard audio, and it works fine. So the real question is why yourffmpegdoesn't work, and that can have a number of reasons, from "outdated version" to "give it the right options". – dirkt – 2019-04-21T04:38:31.283Agreed. Seems like an XY problem.
– llogan – 2019-04-22T17:27:34.653