Audio extracted cleanly; no sync issues.
Let's say you have a video file named young_sheldon_s01e22.mkv and you want to convert it into a more widely compatible format like MP4. You can use the following command:
ffmpeg -i Young.Sheldon.S01E22.mkv -map 0:a:0 -acodec pcm_s16le output_audio.wav
S01E22 is a perfect case study for .
The first step is isolating the audio tracks. A typical MKV file might contain the "replacement" stereo track and a surround sound track. Using ffmpeg , editors strip the audio to analyze the waveform:
Here is an interesting look at the technical workflow that editors used to fix S01E22:
This converts the compressed audio into a raw waveform, allowing the editor to see exactly where the "fake" song starts and ends.