Extracting Audio from Videos

geeza · 4 Jan 2007 at 18:54

I have some videos that I wish to extract audio from to MP3 format.

What is the best software to do this? I could just do it with whatyouhear but that would mean playing all the way through the videos

Saberu · 4 Jan 2007 at 18:58

Graph Edit I think. This should really be in the windows software forum.

Daveyboy · 4 Jan 2007 at 19:04

Sony Soundforge

Load in a video, it converts it into audio that you can export as wav/mp3

stigggeh · 4 Jan 2007 at 19:11

i assume you mean a video file on the pc and not a vhs...

use Virtualdub... which will give you a .WAV file, then just use your frav mp3 encoder ?

EDIT Virtualdub is free BTW http://www.virtualdub.org/

geeza · 4 Jan 2007 at 19:12

thanks. are there any free ones? I can do it with whatyouhear for free but id have to leave videos playing right the way through

Saberu · 4 Jan 2007 at 19:12

geeza said:
thanks. are there any free ones? I can do it with whatyouhear for free but id have to leave videos playing right the way through

Graph Edit and Virtialdub are free.

SexyGreyFox · 4 Jan 2007 at 19:15

Just like a cassette deck or vinyl transfer you will have to plug your VHS into the PC, run a program like Soundforge or Audacity on record and then play the video in real time. It will save as a big WAV file which you will then have to edit down to seperate tracks if you so wish.

Alternately you could record your video onto a standalone DVD recorder which are very cheap now and make a DVD. With that DVD you can put it in your PC and use Audio Extraction tools to get the music off.

geeza · 4 Jan 2007 at 19:22

with virtualDub I get the message 'Couldnt locate decompressor for format 'divx' unknown'

The videos play fine in media player

stigggeh · 4 Jan 2007 at 19:28

geeza said:
with virtualDub I get the message 'Couldnt locate decompressor for format 'divx' unknown'

The videos play fine in media player

sounds like a codec problem... do you have divx codec in?

you may also need an AC3 decompressor depending on the audio type.... http://www.free-codecs.com/download/AC-3_ACM_Decompressor.htm

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