[CS-FSLUG] Extracting soundtrack from WMV

[Ed Hurst]

Michael Bradley, Jr. wrote:
>> I've never done any of this, so I'm completely over my head. Can anyone
>> point me to instructions for splitting out the soundtrack from a WMV
>> video file using standard Linux/BSD tools?
> 
> Install mplayer.  Then:
> 
> mplayer -ao pcm -vo null '/path/to/file.wmv'
> 
> In the directory from which you run mplayer, there will be a file called '
> audiodump.wav'
> 
> The "dump" occurs many, many times faster than playback speed.

Excellent! The results are as expected, and I am grateful for your help.

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Ed Hurst
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