[CS-FSLUG] Extracting soundtrack from WMV

[Stephen J. McCracken]

Ed Hurst wrote:
> Michael Bradley, Jr. wrote:
>> mplayer -ao pcm -vo null '/path/to/file.wmv'
> 
> As a follow-up, I note the resulting WAV was HUGE -- 20.6MB. I read up 
> on conversions, and found 'lame' would compress that to a tidy 93KB MP3, 
> quite quickly from the commandline.
> 
If you're looking for Open Source, you should look into Ogg Vorbis
rather than MP3.  It usually provides better sound for the file size,
too.  Either one is a lossy compression scheme, though.  If you want
lossless compression look into FLAC.  It doesn't have the high
compression ratios, but still saves about 50% with NO loss of fidelity.

sjm