On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 10:33:12AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 08:01:15PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> > Hi Adam, thanks for bringing Opus to my (our) attention. I looked it up and
> > it does sound enticing
> >
> > However, looking at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ there doesn't seem to be
> > anything about converting files to Opus.
>
> I've never used ffmpeg, but that page does talk about opus support. And
> indeed, in Debian I see:
> ffmpeg Depends: libavcodec57
> libavcodec57 Depends: libopus0
> so it's compiled in. And as ffmpeg boasts support for "the most obscure
> ancient formats up to the cutting edge", I guess it has an interface to
> select such formats... just don't ask me how.

With my eyes closed:

ffmpeg -i somesong.mp3 somesong.ops # assuming .ops is the opus extension

> I've always used opusenc directly.
>
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Joel Roth