channelmap¶
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If you need gain control as well as channel remapping, what you want is probably a pan filter. If you simply want to do channel remapping instead, this filter is easier to use than the pan filter.
However, if you already know the pan filter and use this for the first time, you may be a little confused. For example:
[me@host: ~]$ ffmpeg -i in.mov -filter 'channelmap=map=DL-FL|DR-FR' out.wav
DL - FL does not mean “subtract channel FL value from channel DL value”,
rather, this means “let the input be DL and output it to FL”.
So, the above example behaves as “using downmix as 2ch stereo”
if the input is a 5.1+downmix.
Note also the form of “channel number” is different from of pan:
[me@host: ~]$ # swapping LR
[me@host: ~]$ ffmpeg -y -i 2chstereo.wav -filter_complex "
> [0:a]pan='stereo|c0=c1|c1=c0'" out.wav
[me@host: ~]$ # swapping LR
[me@host: ~]$ ffmpeg -y -i 2chstereo.wav -filter_complex "
> [0:a]channelmap='map=1-0|0-1':channel_layout=stereo" out.wav
[me@host: ~]$ # If out_channel is not given then it is
[me@host: ~]$ # implicitly an index, starting with zero and
[me@host: ~]$ # increasing by one for each mapping.
[me@host: ~]$ ffmpeg -y -i 2chstereo.wav -filter_complex "
> [0:a]channelmap='map=1|0':channel_layout=stereo" out.wav