obtaining audio from a video file? possible or impossible?

[The_Triangle]

does anyone know how to get the soundtrack from a video file?

like say u want the audio from the video, how do u do this?

mpg file, converted to mp3 or something like this.??

[Hikaru79]

The_Triangle wrote:

does anyone know how to get the soundtrack from a video file?

like say u want the audio from the video, how do u do this?

mpg file, converted to mp3 or something like this.??

Google "extract audio from video". Millions of ways (3.82 million to be exact)

[Amailer]

Strange, I was talking to dan about this about... a day ago.
The problem with the videos I have have is that... I can only play it streaming from a site, I can't actually download it to my harddrive (or harddisk ).

[The_Triangle]

Amailer wrote:

Strange, I was talking to dan about this about... a day ago.
The problem with the videos I have have is that... I can only play it streaming from a site, I can't actually download it to my harddrive (or harddisk ).

same with me. i tried to get this interview of a author, that i wanted to show for my presentation and i missed out on it.

[Hikaru79]

Here, try this software, Stream-Down. It's a windows program that allows you to capture streaming feeds and save them as whatever format you want. If you also use Linux, there's mimms for you. I believe mplayer's mencode can also do this.

[codemage]

Google.
You want to find a program that either destreams or demuxes a merged (video + audio) file.

[[Gandalf]]

Or else be simplistic and record the streaming file with a microphone .

[The_Triangle]

Hikaru79 wrote:

The_Triangle wrote:

does anyone know how to get the soundtrack from a video file?

like say u want the audio from the video, how do u do this?

mpg file, converted to mp3 or something like this.??

Google "extract audio from video". Millions of ways (3.82 million to be exact)

can you direct me to one of these extractors that fully work, i tried at least 5, and most of them lose quality and only convert half the movie into audio.

Ive tried Virtual Dub, Video to Audio Converter, OSS Audio Converter, and 2 others.

[codemage]

TMPGEnc works pretty well.

[[Gandalf]]

What problem did you have with VirtualDub? I've used it for this exact purpose before, and it worked perfectly.

[The_Triangle]

[Gandalf] wrote:

What problem did you have with VirtualDub? I've used it for this exact purpose before, and it worked perfectly.

i have the video in mpg. i want the audio in mp3 , that i can use on my mp3 player , which uses the MPEG1 codec and doesn't work with MPEG2 codec.

[codemage]

Here is a heap of tutorials on ripping audio

Link (linkified by Coutsos)

If you manage to rip audio, but it's not in mp3 format, just convert that to mp3 using dbpoweramp (A+ freeware) or your audio-conversion software of choice.

[[Gandalf]]

The_Triangle wrote:

[Gandalf] wrote:

What problem did you have with VirtualDub? I've used it for this exact purpose before, and it worked perfectly.

i have the video in mpg. i want the audio in mp3 , that i can use on my mp3 player , which uses the MPEG1 codec and doesn't work with MPEG2 codec.

I'm not quite sure I understand... VirtualDub extracts the audio into a wav file (which most mp3 players should play, nonetheless), which you can just convert into an mp3 with your favourite program of choice (audacity isn't bad, if it's not free (forget) use the trial version.

*edit* Who the blast messed up the frames/layout again?

[The_Triangle]

OK , I have found out that Plato Video to Audio Converter is the one that is right for me, but it only converts 2 mins of the video file... but it works in mp3 and such. yes, WAV files dont work in my mp3.. :S

Does anyone know of a video to audio converter that lets me convert all of the video, so like a full free video to audio converter is what im lookin for.

appreaciate the help

[codemage]

TMPGEnc is for converting between video types, but it has an *excellent* function for ripping audio out. It's free.

http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

You can then use your program to convert the wav to mp3.