Posted: 7/10/2007 7:37 AM
Post subject: How to get sound off an AVI
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Twelvepack
Joined: 5/2/2006
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Location: Boulder, CO
What is the best way of getting sound off of an AVI? To be clear: what I have is an avi movie, what I need is an MP3 of the audio from it. I bet its not too hard, but I can't think of a good way of doing it. [EDIT by Bisqwit: Replaced thread title with a more descriptive one. Was "Probably simple question". <BagOfMagicFood> Can you imagine if every topic was called something like "I have an idea" or "I have a question" ]
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Posted: 7/10/2007 7:40 AM
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Zurreco
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Location: Seattle, WA
There are a few programs out there meant solely for ripping the audio out on your sound card. If you aren't willing to go that far, though, you can always put a microphone up to your speakers :)
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Posted: 7/10/2007 7:52 AM
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Bag_of_Magic_Food
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I use Audacity for all my sound editing needs, and I found out you can hit record (the round red button) and it'll record whatever sound is playing on your computer. So you get all of the quality, no need for microphones, and you can trim the beginning and ending or do whatever other edits you need. Only catch is you have to set the system volume low enough that the sound doesn't clip by hitting the boundaries of whatever.
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Posted: 7/10/2007 8:47 AM
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SXL
Joined: 2/7/2005
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use a video editing program such as Virtual Dub or RI4M (Ripp it after me), separating audio and video tracks is called demuxing. this is a very quick and simple operation. the opposite is called muxing of course. welcome to the world of video editing.
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Posted: 7/11/2007 1:56 AM
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Lex
Joined: 6/25/2007
Posts: 732
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Open your desired video in VirtualDub. Click "Streams" -> "Stream List". Select your desired audio stream and click "Demux". Assuming VirtualDub knows the stream's format, name the file whatever you want and click "Save". Note: I am a Windows user. I don't know if there's a Linux or OSX version of VirtualDub and I'm too tired to research it right now. :P There's definitely a way to do the same thing in other OSes.
Posted: 7/11/2007 2:03 AM
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DeHackEd
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Joined: 11/6/2004
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mplayer -dumpfile output.mp3 -dumpaudio input.avi Runs in all of about 5 seconds, depending on the size of the AVI and the speed of your hard drive. Needs mplayer. :)
Posted: 7/11/2007 3:36 AM
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Twelvepack
Joined: 5/2/2006
Posts: 1020
Location: Boulder, CO
Thanks for the help. It is appriciated.
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