AC3 to WAV using FFmpeg

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Main Page > Documentation > Media type preservation plans > AC-3 Compressed Audio (Dolby Digital) > AC3 to WAV using FFmpeg

  • Used ac3_the_other_side_48khz.ac3 from http://www.kellyindustries.com/sounds.html
  • Used the the following command to convert the file: ffmpeg -i ac3_the_other_side_48khz.ac3 ac3_the_other_side_48khz.wav
  • Some of the metadata in this table are taken from the FFmpeg metadata that were generated during conversion. These are indicated by FFmpeg in brackets next to the value.


Property Original Normalized
Codec AC3 (Dolby Digital Stream) Conflict: PCM Audio in integer format/Microsoft PCM (FITS); pcm_s16le (FFmpeg)
Size 12508160 bytes 90058796 bytes
Duration 00:02:36.35 (FFmpeg) Conflict: 0:2:36:10/0:2:36:352 (FITS); 00:02:36.35 (FFmpeg)
Channels 5.1 (FFmpeg) 6 (FITS); 5.1 (FFmpeg)
Bitrate 640 kb/s 4608 kb/s (FFmpeg)
SampleRate 48000 HZ 48000 HZ
BitDepth 16 (FFmpeg) 16