Ripping Audio from video
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I've always found this a pain in the hole in windows.
mplayer --dumpaudio gig.avi works nice in penguinland, but that's bugger all use to you.
Well, I've always used CoolEdit 2000, but unfortunately that's both not freeware and no longer available (it was bought out by Adobe and called something like Audition?)...
Quality product - no frills music editor/recorder...
not sure what platform you are on I use this on my mac and it's great does the job and much more and there's a windows version
Doctor? wrote: I've always found this a pain in the hole in windows.
The top six reasons computers must be female:
As soon as you have one, a better one is just around the corner.
No one but the creator understands the internal logic.
Even your smallest mistakes are immediately committed to memory for future reference.
The native language used to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
The message "Bad Command or File Name" is about as informative as
"If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you".
AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON COMPUTERS ARE FEMALE:
As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half of your paycheck on accessories for it.
Nick King wrote: Well, I've always used CoolEdit 2000, but unfortunately that's both not freeware and no longer available (it was bought out by Adobe and called something like Audition?)...
Quality product - no frills music editor/recorder...
Yup. And it's jammed in multitrack mode, and they hid/removed all the best functions (the noise reduction is fabulous and compares well against all but the most expensive modern "pro" kit plugins.
One thing that may be possible for the winflicted is to use a half decent video transcoder, decent enough to allow you to set the output video format to "none", then you should just get either wav or mp3, whatever you wish for.
Another kludgey way to do it is to open your system mixer (sndvol32 or sndvol64) and set the recording input to mix or master or stereo out or whatever or, if it's a proprietry mixer rather than the system one it may be called "what you hear". Then start any simple application capable of making a recording and play back the video in windows media notplayer or something that works. Trouble with this is that you get all the system's other noises like beeps and clicks on your recording and you need to pay attention to levels.....NEVER over-record digital, always aim to under-record a little, then you can normalise the result back to a better level, and because it's digital (and on some soundcards doing what we're talking about here, will keep the signal in the digital domain throughout) the signal to noise ratio is daft high so as long as you don't underrecord by like 50dB you'll get away with it.
