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		averms on April 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dano is a wrapper for FFmpeg that checksums the in... I noticed that both muxers convert audio to signed 16-bit PCM by default. Is there a way to avoid this behavior without specifying a codec?

gyan on April 14, 2024 [–]

No, 16-bit PCM is the default audio codec. If no `-c` is specified for a stream, ffmpeg will encode using the default codec. But if `-c X` is declared where X=`copy` or something else, then that is honored.

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