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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html