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# Is there any way to convert this video to mp3 format?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:19, archived)
# yes, use XenEdit
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:20, archived)
# You just want the audio?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:20, archived)
# yep...
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:22, archived)
# Yes. Yes there is.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:21, archived)
# ^ This
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(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:22, archived)
# Spent too long on "links"
...forgot the sarcastic tendencies on the main board. As you were folks, I'll bugger off
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:25, archived)
# Ask /talk. They love answering questions.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:26, archived)
# Yeah
Even I am not THAT stupid...
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:28, archived)
# All you had to do was ask in an existing thread, or make us a picture.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:30, archived)
# Hmmm
I'm so untalented. Sorry
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:30, archived)
# Read the faq you prat
Photobucket
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:24, archived)
# There's no need for that kind of language!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:34, archived)
# Shut up you twerze!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:44, archived)
# I've used DVDVideoSoft with great success in the past, free download.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:27, archived)
# admittedly that was for video ripped from a DVD, so I didn't have to dick around with it too much.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:36, archived)
#

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:28, archived)
# Yes, plenty of ways
unless you're running Vista in which case Microsoft crippled the easiest.

Go and get a copy of something like Handbrake. It reencodes video. You can probably use it to just extract the audio stream. Come to that, you might find that VLC's transcoding options can extract the audio stream. Once on a time you could use VirtualDub. VirtualDub might even still be free and available. If it is, use that.

It's going to sound like fucking gash whatever you do since you're likely to have to reencode the sound, which will just chop massive chunks out of whatever rubbish low bitrate codec was used on it in the first place. If it was done with MP3 or AAC you might find VLC or VirtualDub can extract without reencoding. If you can, do that.

This is me being fluffy. In the future, I'd recommend perhaps posting this in someone's existing thread since you'll get more sensible answers.


Edit: Here. virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ You may be lacking the codecs you need to extract and reencode audio. VirtualDub won't help you on that. Neither will I, I've done enough and my dinner is cooked and I'm watching Extras.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:31, archived)
# Many thanks indeed
You would think after 7 years I would know these things...
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:33, archived)
# More time on /board
less time on /links. That's the rule.

Also, in all seriousness, I can't check how VirtualDub will do things because I'm running a Mac and my Windows machine is hundreds of miles away. But it used to be able to do a direct stream of the audio into a new file so it probably still can.

I'm assuming, by the way, that you've downloaded the video you're wanting. If you've not, the easiest way (on Vista or 7) is to get a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable, plug one end into your line out and one into your line in, unless it's one of these fucking horrible multijacks people are obsessed with in which case plug one into your speaker out and one into your speaker in. Then use a wave editor (Goldwave is ace, if you don't like it then use Audacity which is OK) to just directly capture the sound stream. The drawback is you'll have to play with levels to avoid clipping it like absolutely fuckery, and the audio is being processed so anything your sound card is doing will be captured, and you'll definitely have to reencode it again so you'll haemmorhage quality. But as a last resort, it works.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:34, archived)
# Ha!
Nah I'm too weedy for /board.

Getting too old, now...
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:36, archived)
# I edited my reply
This is called "brute force".

The way you can do it in XP is swap your recording source to "Internal loop" or something like that. That saves arsing around with cables. They killed that in Vista, allegedly to stop people recording internet radio.

I think I just burned my garlic bread. Bollocks. Laters.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:39, archived)
# Apologies for burnt offerings
you have been most helpful...
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:44, archived)
# Oops!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:32, archived)
# ahhahhhhahhhhah yes
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:35, archived)
# And what happened to you, Darrin?
You look all different this year!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:38, archived)
# HOORAY for spoonerisms

click for your pic
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:40, archived)
# hahaha
nice
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:45, archived)
# mmmm, furry wok.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 21:16, archived)
# I use this website
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:43, archived)