> ffmpeg -i flashvideo.flv -ar 44100 -ab 160k -ac 2 output.mp3 It looks to me like this would do the re-encoding thing, especially since the -ab, -ac, and -ar arguments are for telling ffmpeg how to encode it, right? As I'm a little light on CPU power, and just because it seems unneccessary, I'm hoping to avoid reencoding.