[MPlayer-users] audio extract question

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:59:13PM -0500, Steven Adeff wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I have an mpg file my friend gave me because she wants the audio track taken 
> from it and burned to an audio cd. I've been trying to get mencoder/mplayer 
> to extract it and then convert it to mp3 or wav so i can burn it to audio cd. 
> So far I have tried -ao pcm and -audiodump and can get a output file that 
> mplayer can play, but I've been unsuccessful in converting it into a wav or 
> mp3 file. is there a way I can extract and encode to mp3 or wave directly?

Umm, -ao pcm writes a wav file!! -dumpaudio will dump audio in
whatever format it's in, which is probably mp2 or mp3. In either case
you should be fine.

Rich