Need a program

Does anyone know of a program (that's free) that will allow me to extract the sound from an AVI or any other video file?

I thought vitual dub would do that, am I mistaken?

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I've been looking for something like this too.

http://www.doom9.org/ <-- Everything you ever need to know about
digital media. There's tons of free tools there that can perform that
kind of operation.

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God got tired waiting all sunday for the world to compile and finaly had it.
On the Eight day, god created func_details, and he saw that it was fast.

Thanks Orph and Raptor.

P.S. Raptor are you the same guy that is also working on Valandil?

You're welcome bud, but I think I was guessing.. I am almost sure, but it was still a guess.. Hope it helps and good luck. :smile:

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Raptor are you the same guy that is also working on Valandil?

Sure....

ummm... ...whats Valandil? :wink:

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God got tired waiting all sunday for the world to compile and finaly had it.
On the Eight day, god created func_details, and he saw that it was fast.

I was looking at the AVI editing tools on doom9.net and I'm not sure
exactly which one I need. I think the tool I need is Gspot 2.21 but
like I said I'm not exactly sure.

Edit: I also have another computer question. I checked the information
on my graphics card and it says it supports Dx9 or better. Yet when I
play HL2 it runs in Dx8. How do I get it to run in Dx9?

Does anyone know of a program (that's free) that will allow me to extract the sound from an AVI or any other video file?

Why not get a normal sound editor like Audacity or Sound edit PRO (the
first of the two is free, the second has a trial period but you can
cr**k it). You can edit most soundfiles known to man and you can easily
extract the sound from avi's by playing the avi with the record
function on ( which actually works since as far as I know avi
soundtracks are encoded so that you can't extract them even with
animation shop :razz: ) .

...you can easily
extract the sound from avi's by playing the avi with the record
function on ...

Ok, say you would like to rip the sound from a 1.5 h movie. If you
managed to get a tool witch saves the sound to HD while recording (so
the computer wont crash after 2 minutes when all your RAM is eaten
up..). It's still 1.5 hours... why 1.5 hours on a c****ed tool when a
free tool can do it in 5 minutes? :razz:

I was looking at the AVI editing tools on doom9.net and I'm not sure
exactly which one I need. I think the tool I need is Gspot 2.21 but
like I said I'm not exactly sure.

I don't think Gspot is what you need. As far as i now (one year ago..)
gspot is a tool witch views rendering information about avi movies. Look on!

Edit: I also have another computer question. I checked the information
on my graphics card and it says it supports Dx9 or better. Yet when I
play HL2 it runs in Dx8. How do I get it to run in Dx9?

Change the startup parameters in steam to -dxlevel 90, that should do
the trick. I woudn't recomend it though since i knew my card supported
DX9 to. But when i changed, my FPS dropped to one quarter with the same
settings.

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God got tired waiting all sunday for the world to compile and finaly had it.
On the Eight day, god created func_details, and he saw that it was fast.

Oh, I thought he needed small portions of sound. After all, what the heck can one do with 1.5 hrs of movie soundtrack?

Actually the sound I need to extract is from a show so it's only about 20 minutes.

Edit: As for the Dx level I tried changing that before in HL2. In the
video settings in HL2 it says the hardware level is Dx8 and the
Software level is Dx9. I won't let me change either one.

Virtualdub is what you need.

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

Ok thanks.

Edit: I went ahead and just used the record function on Creative
Mediasource Player. It's a great program and kicks Windows Media
Player's ass. I use it for viewing all my videos and music.

I have to do the same thing, but with a .asf and a .wmv, but Virtualdub doesn't support those file formats. Any ideas?

In that case, I would use StoikConvert to convert those vids to a format Virtualdub can handle.

StoikConvert is free, get it here http://www.stoik.com/downloads/downloads_frm.htm (bottom of the page)

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

Thanks, one other question. Is there a way to capture audio from a streaming file?

Googled for it, you can capture ASF video with specific programs, then
convert it to AVI, load it up in Virtualdub and extract the sound.

http://emoney.al.ru/capture-streaming-video-and-audio/faq-record-asf-stream.htm

OR

you can use a sound recorder of some sort to record whilst playing the movie.

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

Thanks there Forceflow, you're the best :smile: