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Re: [LUG] mpg to mp3

 

David Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 24 May 2007 10:54, Simon Robert wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>> I have been asked to record the archers and round our way the only means
>> of good reception is via satellite. Recording is not a problem, I have a
>> card and feed into my pc and can record using kaffine.
>>
>> Now I need to turn the result *.mpg/TS file into a mp3 or wav or ogg or
>> whatever. I have found a neat script that will convert mpg to avi with
>> an mp3 soundtrack.
>>
>>     
>
> You could use GStreamer, with the following command:
>
> gst-launch filesrc location=yoursourcefile.mpeg ! 
> ffdemux_mpegts ! 'audio/mpeg' ! filesink location=yourdestfile.mp2
>
> That simply extracts the audio from the transport stream, without converting 
> the format at all. The resulting file is MPEG2 audio - anything that can play 
> MP3 should be able to play it. If you want to convert it to MP3 or OGG 
> (perhaps if file size is an issue) let me know and I'll give you a revised 
> command.
>
> GStreamer packages should be available for your distro (in Debian you 
> want 'gstreamer0.10-tools' and 'gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg'). Depending on your 
> distro the gst-launch command may have a version number postfix, e.g. 
> gst-launch-0.10.
>
> If you can't make it work put the files somewhere I can get them and I'll do 
> it for you. GStreamer can be a bit of a pain and older versions can have 
> serious bugs that prevent things from working as they should.
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
>   
this works very well. Thanks a lot for it.

Simon

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