Extracting sound files (wav) from audio files

[Claire Bowern]

Just to add to the list of free programs that'll do this, VLC is quite 
good: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Just load the video and choose "export" - you can pick the sound and 
choose the formats.
Claire


William J Poser wrote:
> Another approach to extracting audio from video files is to use
> the ffmpeg program, which is available at no cost here:
> http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/index.html
> 
> I've only used it under Linux but it is supposed to compile
> under MS Windows as well. The command line arguments are somewhat
> cryptic. The command line you need is like this:
> 
> ffmpeg -i foo.avi -f wav foo.wav
> 
> The argument of the -i flag is the input file. The argument
> of the -f flag is desired output file type. The last argument
> is the name of the output file.
> 
> Bill
>