Extract Audio from an Mpeg File?


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Does anyone know of a decent utility that can extract the audio from an mpeg2 video file? Virtualdub seems to do it, but it doesn't always work for some reason, in particular with one video I'm trying to extract audio from. Preferably, I'd like to save the extracted audio stream as a wav file, but format doesn't matter really since that can be converted. Windows only solutions please, my Linux box died on me last week (rest in peace ye ole 60gig.. :(). Thanks in advance!

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If you can't find any other way, you can always fall back on installing mplayer via cygwin, and using "mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio.wav -vo null movie.mpeg"

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Virtualdub seems to do it, but it doesn't always work for some reason, in particular with one video I'm trying to extract audio from.

username: VirtualDub won't extract audio from most of the mpeg files I try.

Everyone else: thanks for the suggestions, I'll try 'em out

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Well, I tried mplayer and tmpeg, both didn't work right. I was left with a wav file that will only play in Windows Media Player, and no conversion program thus far can convert it to ogg or mp3.

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do you know what codec the sound was in? was it a vcd? if so, the sound was in mp2 format, and a straight dump would conserve the format, ignoring whatever extension you gave it. you would have to play the file in WMP or winamp or something, and do a wav disk write. then encode.

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