Mac: AC3/AAC to WAV/PCM

[MacLover]

Hey there,

I did a search but I found nothing useful but I was wondering is there a programme on Mac that will let me convert AC3/AAC to WAV/PCM as X• seems to crash when I use AC3 sources, and requires them to be converted to PCM or WAV.

So is there a programme that can do that for me on Mac?

Thanks in advance,

MacLover

[Snowknight26]

Audacity might with its new ffmpeg support, but I've found that it doesn't work too well yet.

[HymnToLife]

ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i whatever.ac3 -acodec pcm_s16le something.wav

[MacLover]

Thanks for your replies, I will try it out tomorrow when I am more awake :D

MacLover

[MacLover]

I tried both and it did not work :(

The ffmpeg -i whatever.ac3 -acodec pcm_s16le something.wav
one is meant to be run in Terminal right?

[HymnToLife]

Yes. Of course, you must have ffmpeg installed. ;) I don't know whether precompiled binaries for Mac exist (Google is your friend), but if they don't, it's fairly easy to compile.

[MacLover]

I have it installed, maybe it is out of date? I don't know but off to google ;)

[HymnToLife]

Then what's the problem?