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Re: [LUG] flv to sound file

 

james kilty wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I would like to extract some sound from a couple of Youtube .flv
> downloads to make a short 2 min dance piece for my daughter's gcse. I
> had a look at clive (in a ubuntu repository) but what I understand from
> the man page is that it is just recoding to another video standard. This
> might mean that with your help I can then run it into audacity and turn
> it into a mp3 for any old school computer or put it on a cd for her. 
> 
> The only other way I have seen that might work if the server wasn't so
> overloaded is vixy.com.
> 
> There is a free converter to mpeg4 from this lot but again I'd need help
> - like, can audacity import mpeg4? I'd also have to build from source
> which is something I haven't done.
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> PS On some sites with FF in kubuntu 64 bit I get a tiny blank window in
> the centre of the screen. vixy is one of them I suppose I just wait
> until the next batch of updates? It works with 32 bit.
> 
> James


You should be able to do it with mplayer...

mplayer filename.flv -vo nul -ao pcm:file=filename.wav

It should give you a copy of the audio in WAV format.

HTH

Rob

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