Hi, I have digitized an old audiotape on Mac with Formac DVStudio (analog audio/video to FireWire DV converter) and old analog tape player. Strangely enough, supplied Formac AudioWizard is able to create only *.mov file without video. The question is how to extract audio from uncompressed *.mov files and convert it to mp3 on Linux, where I have moved them? Thanks in advance. Andrei
On Thursday 28 July 2005 13:49, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Hi,
I have digitized an old audiotape on Mac with Formac DVStudio (analog audio/video to FireWire DV converter) and old analog tape player. Strangely enough, supplied Formac AudioWizard is able to create only *.mov file without video.
The question is how to extract audio from uncompressed *.mov files and convert it to mp3 on Linux, where I have moved them?
Thanks in advance.
Andrei
Hi Andrei, I don't know with 100% certainty that sox will do exactly this extraction or a conversion for you, but I've used it many times successfully for just these kinds of crazy situations. I'd be surprised if didn't get you at least part of the way to a solution. Look through 'man sox' and 'man soxexam'. Good luck & regards, - Carl
Hi, Carl, Thanks a lot for reply, however, sox do not support Appleś *.mov format. On Thursday 28 July 2005 22:34, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
Hi Andrei,
I don't know with 100% certainty that sox will do exactly this extraction or a conversion for you, but I've used it many times successfully for just these kinds of crazy situations. I'd be surprised if didn't get you at least part of the way to a solution. Look through 'man sox' and 'man soxexam'.
Good luck & regards,
On 28 Jul 2005, andreil1@starlett.lv wrote:
The question is how to extract audio from uncompressed *.mov files and convert it to mp3 on Linux, where I have moved them?
You could probable do it with transcode, however this is a complicated affair. An easier method is to use vsound: http://www.zorg.org/vsound/index.shtml and lame. Charles -- "Open Standards, Open Documents, and Open Source" -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
On Thursday 28 July 2005 12:49, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
The question is how to extract audio from uncompressed *.mov files and convert it to mp3 on Linux, where I have moved them?
If you have mplayer installed, it's pretty simple to extract the audio: mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file=filename.wav file.mov then you can use something like lame to convert to mp3: lame -h filename.wav filename.mp3 -- Homepage http://scottj.org XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB
On Thursday 28 July 2005 16:42, Scott Jones wrote: <snip>
If you have mplayer installed, it's pretty simple to extract the audio:
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file=filename.wav file.mov
then you can use something like lame to convert to mp3:
lame -h filename.wav filename.mp3
Thanks for the insight, Scott! I'm just guessing here: '-vc dummy' tells MPlayer to use dummy video hardware '-vo null' switches off the video output '-ao pcm:file=filename.wav' writes the audio output to filename.wav Looks like I've got some reading up to do on MPlayer's CLI capabilities. This could be *extremely* helpful and I really appreciate the heads-up! Andrei, Whether or not this procedure works, and I'm pretty sure it will, would you be willing to share a sample of (or from) one of the uncompressed .mov files for experimentation? - Carl
Hi, Scott, Thanks a lot for excellent tip! Tomorow I will try it and post a result. On Friday 29 July 2005 00:22, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
On Thursday 28 July 2005 16:42, Scott Jones wrote: <snip>
If you have mplayer installed, it's pretty simple to extract the audio:
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file=filename.wav file.mov
then you can use something like lame to convert to mp3:
lame -h filename.wav filename.mp3
Thanks for the insight, Scott! I'm just guessing here:
'-vc dummy' tells MPlayer to use dummy video hardware '-vo null' switches off the video output '-ao pcm:file=filename.wav' writes the audio output to filename.wav
Looks like I've got some reading up to do on MPlayer's CLI capabilities. This could be *extremely* helpful and I really appreciate the heads-up!
Andrei,
Whether or not this procedure works, and I'm pretty sure it will, would you be willing to share a sample of (or from) one of the uncompressed .mov files for experimentation?
- Carl
On Thursday 28 July 2005 16:22, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
Thanks for the insight, Scott! I'm just guessing here:
'-vc dummy' tells MPlayer to use dummy video hardware
It uses the dummy video codec, but essentially correct.
'-vo null' switches off the video output
Yup.
'-ao pcm:file=filename.wav' writes the audio output to filename.wav
It tells it to use the raw PCM/wave file output driver, yes.
Looks like I've got some reading up to do on MPlayer's CLI capabilities. This could be *extremely* helpful and I really appreciate the heads-up!
The MPlayer manpage is pretty comprehensive, as are the docs in /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer. -- Homepage http://scottj.org XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB
On Thursday 28 July 2005 23:42, Scott Jones wrote:
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file=filename.wav file.mov
Thanks for everyone who replied. The tip of Scott Jones worked just great. ************************************************ *** with best regards *** Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) *** Mac, Linux, DTP, Programming Web Site *** *** http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac/ ************************************************
On Friday 29 July 2005 14:16, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
On Thursday 28 July 2005 23:42, Scott Jones wrote:
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file=filename.wav file.mov
Thanks for everyone who replied. The tip of Scott Jones worked just great.
You're welcome. Glad it worked.
On Thursday 28 July 2005 12:49, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Hi,
I have digitized an old audiotape on Mac with Formac DVStudio (analog audio/video to FireWire DV converter) and old analog tape player. Strangely enough, supplied Formac AudioWizard is able to create only *.mov file without video.
The question is how to extract audio from uncompressed *.mov files and convert it to mp3 on Linux, where I have moved them?
I'm not real sure, but maybe Konverter could help? <http://www.kraus.tk/projects/konverter/> John
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