Singler line FFMPEG cmd to Merge Video /Audio and retain both audios

Question

I have a project that requires merging of a video file with another audio file. The expected out put is an video file that will have both the audio from actual video and the me

Answer 1

There can be achieved without using map also.

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.mp3 output.mp4

In case you want the output.mp4 to stop as soon as one of the input stops (audio/video) then use

-shortest

For example: ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.mp3 -shortest output.mp4

This will make sure that the output stops as and when any one of the inputs is completed.

Since you have asked that you want to do it with map. this is how you do it:

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.mp3 -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -shortest output.mp4

Now, since you want to retain the audio of the video file, consider you want to merge audio.mp3 and video.mp4. These are the steps:

1. Extract audio from the video.mp4

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 1.mp3

2. Merge both audio.mp3 and 1.mp3

ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -i 1.mp3 -filter_complex amerge -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 4 audiofinal.mp3

3. Remove the audio from video.mp4 (this step is not required. but just to do it properly)

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -an videofinal.mp4

4. Now merge audiofinal.mp3 and videofinal.mp4

ffmpeg -i videofinal.mp4 -i audiofinal.mp3 -shortest final.mp4

note: in the latest version of ffmpeg it will only prompt you to use '-strict -2' in case it does then use this:

ffmpeg -i videofinal.mp4 -i audiofinal.mp3 -shortest -strict -2 final.mp4

hope this helps.