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2 months ago Thanks for describing the issue. If I understand correctly, you can achieve what you need with the --extra-output-options option and pass the -ac option there. Please refer to the README for some examples.
The reason why there's not a dedicated option for this (yet) is that I didn't want to map every single ffmpeg option. That said, the audio channel option is used often, so it could make sense to add it explicitly.
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