Answers.Body: <p><code>-vn</code> + <code>-c:v libx264</code> Does not make any sense. 
  This is saying "Don't encode video, but use libx264 to encode no video."</p>
  
  <p>You also can not set a bitrate for wav because it's a noncompressed format.</p>
  
  <p>So your command becomes:</p>
  
  <p><code>ffmpeg -i name.mov -vn -ar 48000 -ac 2 name.wav</code></p>
  
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Answers.Text: `-vn` can be omitted for wav output, but it makes no difference.
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Body: <p>Good day everyone. Im making my babysteps into ffmpeg, and so far this tool has been really helpfull. Anyway.
  Im currently using this line as a convertion basis : </p>
  
  <pre><code>ffmpeg -i name.mov -c:v libx264 name.wav
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But while searching through the question here i've seen that : </p>
  
  <pre><code>ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 1 -b:a 32k -f mp3 audio.mp3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Or even this (a script) : </p>
  
  <pre><code>%%f in (*.mp4) do ffmpeg -i "%%f" -vn -ar 44100 -ac 1 -b:a 32k -f mp3 "%%~nf.mp3"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So now let's dive into it. Im wondering <em>if</em> i can merge the two first ones like that :</p>
  
  <pre><code>ffmpeg -i name.mov -vn -ar 48000 -ac 2 -b:a 32k libx264 -f wav name.wav
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And how i can modify it by making it scripted. 
  Also im wondering if the ffmpeg i got is good because i don't have a command prompt that directly open cmd into <code>cd bin</code>. As im forced to write everytime the entire path.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance. S'Aarum.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: *"As im forced to write everytime the entire path."* Add ffmpeg.exe to the environment variables. [See here](https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/20495/how-do-i-set-up-and-use-ffmpeg-in-windows/20496#20496)
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Comments.Text: Looks like you've already seen that page. One of your commands is the example command there.
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Tags: <video><ffmpeg><audio><conversion><script>
Title: FFMPEG - Creating script to convert a video into audio file (or anything related really) + diverses questions
UserDisplayName: S'Aarum
ThreadText: # FFMPEG - Creating script to convert a video into audio file (or anything related really) + diverses questions
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-05-02)
  
  Good day everyone. Im making my babysteps into ffmpeg, and so far this tool has been really helpfull. Anyway.
  Im currently using this line as a convertion basis :
  
  ```
  ffmpeg -i name.mov -c:v libx264 name.wav
  
  ```
  
  But while searching through the question here i've seen that :
  
  ```
  ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 1 -b:a 32k -f mp3 audio.mp3
  
  ```
  
  Or even this (a script) :
  
  ```
  %%f in (*.mp4) do ffmpeg -i "%%f" -vn -ar 44100 -ac 1 -b:a 32k -f mp3 "%%~nf.mp3"
  
  ```
  
  So now let's dive into it. Im wondering *if* i can merge the two first ones like that :
  
  ```
  ffmpeg -i name.mov -vn -ar 48000 -ac 2 -b:a 32k libx264 -f wav name.wav
  
  ```
  
  And how i can modify it by making it scripted.
  Also im wondering if the ffmpeg i got is good because i don't have a command prompt that directly open cmd into `cd bin`. As im forced to write everytime the entire path.
  
  Thanks in advance. username_0.
  
  **Tags:** video, ffmpeg, audio, conversion, script
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: *"As im forced to write everytime the entire path."* Add ffmpeg.exe to the environment variables. [See here](https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/20495/how-do-i-set-up-and-use-ffmpeg-in-windows/20496#20496)  
  > **username_1**: Looks like you've already seen that page. One of your commands is the example command there.  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2019-05-02. Score: 0
  
  `-vn` + `-c:v libx264` Does not make any sense.
  This is saying "Don't encode video, but use libx264 to encode no video."
  
  You also can not set a bitrate for wav because it's a noncompressed format.
  
  So your command becomes:
  
  `ffmpeg -i name.mov -vn -ar 48000 -ac 2 name.wav`
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: `-vn` can be omitted for wav output, but it makes no difference.  
  
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