Command line tool to extract wma from wmv?

[EdenResident]

Hello all,

Is there a command line tool to extract wma from wmv without recoding/encoding? (ie., I don't want any processing and just need the original stream).

I tried ffmpeg but it gave me this error.
[NULL @ 00000000003fc880] Requested output format 'wma' is not a suitable output format
audio.wma: Invalid argument

Thank you in advance.

[fornit]

Should work with mka as output format. E.g.:

ffmpeg -i in.wmv -map 0:a:0 -c:a copy -y out.mka

[sneaker]

Did you try "-f wma"? ffmpeg seems to expect "-f asf" instead. At least that's what ffmpeg choose if you omit the -f option completely and just name the output "whatever.wma". (Use -map and -c:a as shown by fornit.)

But do you really need the original, compressed stream or do you want to work/edit further on it? Then choose a lossless output format like PCM/WAV.

[JVRaines]

Advanced Systems Format (asf) is the canonical container for Windows Media Audio.

[poisondeathray]

Another option is the command line version of asfbin

Assuming video is stream 1 (sometimes wmv stream numbering can be swapped; audio can be first as stream 1)

"asfbin" -i "input.wmv" -o "output.wma" -nostr 1

[EdenResident]

Did you try "-f wma"? ffmpeg seems to expect "-f asf" instead. At least that's what ffmpeg choose if you omit the -f option completely and just name the output "whatever.wma". (Use -map and -c:a as shown by fornit.)

But do you really need the original, compressed stream or do you want to work/edit further on it? Then choose a lossless output format like PCM/WAV.

You were right! Thank you for the pointer. I got rid of "-f wma" and ffmpeg produced the wma file just as what I wanted.

However, the original audio stream was 96Kpbs (according to MediaInfo) and the output file is 128kbps so looks like ffmpeg did do some minor recoding. Is there any option to tell ffmpeg to preserve the original bitrate?

[sneaker]

What does the ffmpeg log say? If it says it copied the track(*) then I would trust it and assume MediaInfo was working incorrectly. MediaInfo isn't always accurate with >1 tracks + variable bitrate when it comes to detecting the average bitrates.


(*) I.e. you used -c:a copy or -c copy and the log shows something like:

Stream mapping:
   Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)

[EdenResident]

What does the ffmpeg log say? If it says it copied the track(*) then I would trust it and assume MediaInfo was working incorrectly. MediaInfo isn't always accurate with >1 tracks + variable bitrate when it comes to detecting the average bitrates.


(*) I.e. you used -c:a copy or -c copy and the log shows something like:

Stream mapping:
   Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)

Thanks, sneaker. I added "-c:a copy" and looks like it worked. Thank you!

  Input #0, asf, from 'R:\hcm1m7cap011\M7VIREC01\VIREC165\ADNC0400V0096A\Vi0165201
8\Vi0165201808\Vi016520180810\Vi016520180810111500112000000100.wmv':
  Metadata:
    WMFSDKNeeded    : 0.0.0.0000
    DeviceConformanceTemplate: MP@ML
    WMFSDKVersion   : 12.0.7601.17514
    IsVBR           : 0
  Duration: 00:05:00.11, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 497 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
, 96 kb/s
    Stream #0:1(eng): Video: wmv3 (Main) (WMV3 / 0x33564D57), yuv420p, 384x288,
400 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Output #0, asf, to 'D:\Dinh\MRL\AudioRefs\0165\20180810111500.wma':
  Metadata:
    WMFSDKNeeded    : 0.0.0.0000
    DeviceConformanceTemplate: MP@ML
    WMFSDKVersion   : 12.0.7601.17514
    IsVBR           : 0
    WM/EncodingSettings: Lavf58.17.101
    Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
, 96 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
size=    2598kB time=00:02:21.52 bitrate= 150.4kbits/s speed= 160x
video:0kB audio:1662kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing
overhead: 56.301533%
Exiting normally, received signal 2.