[LAU] .AVI to music file

[Justin Smith]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:39 PM, millward <millward at ms.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>  How do you strip the audio track from an .AVI file ?
>   I'd like the resulting audio track to be burned onto an audio CD.
>   The only good thing about the .AVI video file is the audio track.
>   This is on a LInux Ubuntu or Slackware system with a half-gig
>   of memory.  I'd upgrade the memory but this machine is getting
>   too old to throw money at. I'd rather save to get a new machine
>   sometime this fall.
>
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mplayer will do this with any movie file:
mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm -benchmark test.avi

(this creates the file audiodump.wav, there may be a way to also
specify the name for automation purposes)