[mdlug] Speaking of audio formats...

[Michael Corral]

2010-01-02, Monsieur David Lee Lambert a ecrit:
> 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?

You could use mplayer to rip the audio portion of the video files as
WAV files, then encode those to MP3 or whatever you want:

mplayer <your_video_file> -ao pcm:file=myfile.wav -vo null

Michael