[LAU] .AVI to music file

[Brett McCoy]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:39 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.

I'd use mplayer with the --dumpaudio option:

mplayer <input file>  -dumpaudio -dumpfile <output file>

-- Brett
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