--- running the following command on the latest ffmpeg with this mp3 input, command executed fine. However, the result file is only 3345 bytes, and contains only 0.8 seconds. Command: /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i tooSmallOrig.mp3 -y -ab 32k -ar 11025 -acodec libmp3lame tooSmallFinal.mp3 FFmpeg version SVN-r10677, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-swscaler --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libxvid --enable-pp --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --enable-liba52bin --enable-libgsm --enable-libx264 --enable-liba52 --enable-libtheora --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libamr-nb libavutil version: 49.5.0 libavcodec version: 51.44.0 libavformat version: 51.14.0 built on Oct 7 2007 01:41:08, gcc: 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13) mdb:450, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0 mdb:450, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0 mdb:450, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1 mdb:450, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1 mdb:468, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0 mdb:468, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0 mdb:468, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1 mdb:468, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1 Input #0, mpeg, from 'tooSmallOrig.mp3': Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A Stream #0.0[0x1d1]: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s Stream #0.1[0x1db]: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s Output #0, mp3, to 'tooSmallFinal.mp3': Stream #0.0: Audio: libmp3lame, 11025 Hz, stereo, 32 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Press [q] to stop encoding mdb:450, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0 mdb:450, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0 mdb:450, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1 mdb:450, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1 mdb:478, lastbuf:382 skipping granule 0 size= 3kB time=0.8 bitrate= 32.3kbits/s video:0kB audio:3kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.957224%