I’ve received a fair bit of follow-up email to my Mac 911 blog entry from last week, Extracting audio from movies with iLife. Now seems as good a time as any to address a couple of those messages.

I have a video and wanted to extract the audio only. Video is 4 mins long give or take and is 17.3 meg I fired up VLC player, opted to convert to a mp3 with 384 kb/s and 44.1k and got a file that was ...

When extracting the audio using Virtualdub, it creates a .wav file but does not do any conversion as far as I am aware. For example, I extracted the sound from an avi which had mp3 compressed audio.

Extract audio streams from Blu-ray, DVD-Audio and DVD-Video discs and save them as OGG, MP3, Wave or FLAC files. DVD Audio Extractor can also demux audio streams directly to mlp, pcm, mpa, ac3 or dts ...