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@@ -118,6 +118,23 @@ There's nothing stopping us from using a different rate than the actual device r $ parec --channels=1 --device="${PASOURCE}" --raw | specgram -l -r 1e-8 ``` +#### Usage with FFmpeg + +In order to generate a spectrogram for an encoded audio file, it is neccesarily to decode it first. This can be done with FFmpeg, using any of the [raw audio formats available](https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/audio%20types#SampleFormats). + +For example, to generate the spectrogram for an MP3 file: + +```bash +$ ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -f s16le - | specgram output.png +``` + +Or, in order to use 32-bit data: + +```bash +$ ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -f s32le - | specgram -d s32 output.png +``` +Note that you will have to manually stop specgram with a SIGINT once the ffmpeg stream is finished. + ### FFT options The FFT window width can be specified with ```-f, --fft_width``` and the stride, that is the distance between the beginning of two subsequent FFT windows, can be specified with ```-g, --fft_stride```: |