> On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:40, Robin Gilks wrote: >> Greetings >> >> My setup uses a sat set-top box going into the s-video and external >> audio >> inputs on a PVR-150 card. A few radio stations are carried by the sat >> provider but of cause the video is static - after recording, whats the >> best way to split out the audio in a lossless fashion to an mp3 file? >> >> I'm sure there are lots of options (mencoder, replex - not sure really) >> but a simple command line tool is what I'm after. >> >> Thanks... > > mplayer inputfile -dumpaudio -dumpfile output > > do you know if the audio is mp3? If its from a sat its prbly mpeg2 or AC3 > 2.0 > audio so you'd want to then use lame to convert to mp3 (I recommend > --preset > extreme or standard depending on your equipment quality and ear). > > you might even be able to feed the file straight into the lame encoder and > it > might ignore the video and only encode the audio to an mp3 file. >
Thanks Steve Using the mplayer option dumped a very usable 256k mp3 file. Just right!! -- Robin Gilks _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
