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Extract audio stream from an AVI file using mencoder

Terminal - Extract audio stream from an AVI file using mencoder
mencoder "${file}" -of rawaudio -oac mp3lame -ovc copy -o audio/"${file/%avi/mp3}"
2009-02-15 14:57:54
User: fulat2k
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Extract audio stream from an AVI file using mencoder

This commands saves the output in the audio directory. The portion ${file/%avi/mp3} uses bash string replacement to replace the avi to mp3 within the ${file} variable.

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mencoder "${file}" -of rawaudio -oac mp3lame -ovc copy -o "${file%.*}.mp3"
2012-12-14 03:49:52
User: Tungmar
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Extract audio stream from an video file using mencoder

This command extracts the audio stream of the video in $file and stores it in a file where the original suffix is changed to .mp3

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If you want it without being mp3 compressed try this

mplayer $avi -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast:file=$wav

Comment by maht 221 weeks and 6 days ago

I did a batch operation on multiple files with

for file in `ls -1`;do mencoder "${file}" -of rawaudio -oac mp3lame -ovc copy -o audio/"${file/%avi/mp3}";done

assuming audio/ directory has been created beforehand.

This is simply an awesome one-liner. Thank you for sharing this!

Comment by xCrucialDudex 127 weeks and 3 days ago

Two things i've learned using this:

1) using mencoder is faster than "mplayer -audiodump"; the latter will play the entire video in normal speed as it dumps the audio.

2) If your files have spaces on their names use:

$ for file in *; do mencoder "${file}" -of rawaudio -oac lavc -ovc copy -o audio/"{file/%avi/}mp2";done

Comment by edutiao 93 weeks and 3 days ago

i also have this kinds of needs recently, and after long google search, i accidentally find a step by step guide on how to extract audio from MKV, MOV, MP4, WMV, AVI, MPG, VOB, 3GP, FLV, WebM, SWF, F4V, DivX, Xvid, ASF, RMVB, MVI, WTV, DVR, H.264, DV, MXF, AVCHD, MOD, TOD, MTS and etc at http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/audio-extractor-extract-audio-from-mp4-flv-avi-mkv-mov-wmv.html

It did help me to extract audio from mkv files and then allow me to save them as mp3, wmv, or wav

hope it also helps you

Comment by grahambuddhenry 16 weeks and 3 days ago

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