[mdlug] Speaking of audio formats...

[David Lee Lambert]

Today I tried to rip the soundtrack from a DVD (actually, from the bonus 
material: music videos of the songs) using VLC.  "Media -> 
Convert/Save...", specify the right chapter, select an output format;  I 
tried several MPEG variants but kept getting error-messages, then 
selected Ogg Vorbis and got it to work. 

However,  what I obtained is four huge video files that only VLC can 
play;  about 200 MB for a 10-minute song.  Is there some way to 
re-encode just the audio tracks as MP3 or WMA, so I can copy them to a 
portable music player?

Working under Ubuntu Intrepid, but I played one of the files back using 
vlc under Debian Etch.

Also,  has anyone gotten some sort of streaming audio protocol to work 
over an SSH tunnel?

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DLL