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I have an MKV video file with 5.1 channel audio. I want to use the third channel (FC) as AAC Audio Track 1 (with language label Malayalam), the whole audio file copied as Audio Track 2 (also with language label Malayalam), and save the video as MKV. I don't want to reencode the video.

How can I do that?

I tried this:

ffmpeg -i "input.mkv" -filter_complex "channelsplit=channel_layout=5.1[FL][FR][FC][LFE][BL][BR]" -map '[FC]' -acodec aac -map 0 -vcodec copy "output [Background Removed].mkv"

It gave me the error:

Filter channelsplit:BR has an unconnected output
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Only extract the relevant channel using channelsplit.

Use

ffmpeg -i "input.mkv" -filter_complex "channelsplit=channel_layout=5.1:channels=FC[FC]" -map '[FC]' -map 0 -c copy -c:a:0 aac "output [Background Removed].mkv"

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  • Thanks. I need at least 15 reputation to up-vote. Your answer is really useful. Please mention how to set the language of the new track to Malayalam, so that I can select this as the correct answer.
    – Kalyani
    Aug 3, 2021 at 4:47
  • Add -metadata:s:a:0 language=mal
    – Gyan
    Aug 3, 2021 at 10:49
  • Up-voted and Selected, although it would be useful for everybody to describe each part of the command.
    – Kalyani
    Aug 5, 2021 at 12:52

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