[mdlug] Speaking of audio formats...

[Aaron Kulkis]

Michael Corral wrote:
> 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

I would suggest FLAC (LOSSLESS compression, as opposed to the
rather lossy compression of MP3), since a lot of digital audio
players DO recognize and play both .ogg and .flac files.