botvolution<p>OK so for completeness, I remembered I had a script that captured a live stream and rendered it to file using cvlc, so I fucked around with that a bit and it works.</p><p>cvlc input.flac :sout="<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/transcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transcode</span></a>{acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=48000}:file{dst=output.mp3,no-overwrite}" </p><p>Also, I have no idea why I thought it was quicker, if anything it's fractionally slower than using a flac-lame pipeline or ffmpeg 🙄</p>