[MPlayer-users] Re: using mencoder to extract audio

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:42:44AM +0200, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > You guys are missing the point.  If you want to
> > extract the audio from a 3 hour concert video, that
> > can be done in minutes on a good machine with a
> > transcoder,  or it can be done in 3 hours with the
> > mplayer -dumpaudio technique.  
> 
> mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -dumpfile whatever.ext yourfile.ext
> 
> The '-vc dummy' is NOT a typo.

huh? are we talking about -dumpaudio or -ao pcm?? -dumpaudio is always
as fast as possible, like all the -dump* options, and no decoding ever
takes place. i think the user who posted this was confused...

rich