pi@pPro ~/Desktop/ffstrange > ffmpeg -i campbell_band_orig.caf x.wav ffmpeg version 4.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers built with Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5) configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/4.1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-ffplay --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libsnappy --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-lzma --enable-opencl --enable-videotoolbox libavutil 56. 22.100 / 56. 22.100 libavcodec 58. 35.100 / 58. 35.100 libavformat 58. 20.100 / 58. 20.100 libavdevice 58. 5.100 / 58. 5.100 libavfilter 7. 40.101 / 7. 40.101 libavresample 4. 0. 0 / 4. 0. 0 libswscale 5. 3.100 / 5. 3.100 libswresample 3. 3.100 / 3. 3.100 libpostproc 55. 3.100 / 55. 3.100 [caf @ 0x7fa4b2000000] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : mono Input #0, caf, from 'campbell_band_orig.caf': Duration: 00:00:33.81, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 768 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16be (lpcm / 0x6D63706C), 48000 Hz, mono, s16, 768 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (pcm_s16be (native) -> pcm_s16le (native)) Press [q] to stop, [?] for help Output #0, wav, to 'x.wav': Metadata: ISFT : Lavf58.20.100 Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 48000 Hz, mono, s16, 768 kb/s Metadata: encoder : Lavc58.35.100 pcm_s16le size= 3170kB time=00:00:33.81 bitrate= 768.0kbits/s speed=2.58e+03x video:0kB audio:3170kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.002403%