[MPlayer-users] can I dump a section of audio from a divx file directly into a wav file?

[The Wanderer]

Nathan Morell wrote:

> can I dump a section of audio from a divx file directly into a wav
> file?
> 
> just trying to save some time, but basically I want to get a quote
> from a file I have in Divx format, without too much of a problem

I was going to say "RTFM", but I suppose this isn't specifically in 
there - though its components are.

You can use MPlayer, -ao pcm to produce the WAV file, -ss to get to the
place you want to start, and ^C when you've gotten it all. I've done
this a few times in the past, without difficulty - though it may be
necessary to clip the ends of the resulting file to get rid of a small
amount of extraneous data.

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