
Other packages like libavcodec-extra57, which provides some additional de/encoders or any dev-versions have to be installed manually. This is from an Ubuntu 16.10 installation - packages and versions are different in other editions. For example - here my initial setup - these packages were installed after I had executed the command sudo apt install ffmpeg : ffmpeg (7:3.0.2-1ubuntu3)

When you install ffmpeg using apt, the 'additional packages' are getting installed alongside automatically, maybe something went wrong in your case.

Update addressing your comment about missing packages after an installation using apt There is no need to download ffmpeg from launchpad. To install it open a terminal and execute this command : sudo apt install ffmpeg xenial | xenial-updates | yakkety | yakkety-updates - apt policy ffmpegĥ00 yakkety-updates/universe amd64 Packagesĥ00 yakkety-security/universe amd64 Packages Video:996kB audio:10027kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.Ffmpeg is available in the official Ubuntu repositories : Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : stereoĭuration: 00:05:20.83, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 281 kb/s His second hint even retains Artist, Title, and so on.Ĭommandline and output of avconv: $ avconv -i in.mp3 -map_metadata -1 -c:v copy -c:a copy out.mp3Īvconv version 9.16-6:9.16-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developersīuilt on 18:16:02 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) The same happens with evilsoup's hint, even albeit this is a native avconv hint.


The output file has no more Title and Artist information, but embedded images are retained. Slhck's hint doesn't work simply by replacing ffmpeg with avconv. I wanted to use avconv and tried the given hints. In a brief: How to simply get a stream of pure MP3 frames out of a MP3 file – by means of command line tools? Preferable using tools out of the box of a linux mint system.
