[LAU] Tool to extract audio from avi file

Stefan Scheffler stefanscheffler at gmx.net
Sat Mar 1 21:39:14 EST 2008


Am Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:27:16 +0100
schrieb Sebastian Tschöpel <tschoseb at tu-cottbus.de>:
> Does anyone know a tool to extract the (mono i guess) audio track from
> an avi-file? A cmd-line tool would be fine as well. 
> 

With mplayers -dumpaudio option you can extract the track without
decoding it. It writes to a file called stream.dump by default.

Although, if you want to do anything with it you'll have to decode it
anyway, so what the rest suggested is probably more practical in most
situations.

stefan



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