Getting / recording sound from video (.MOV, .AVI)

Nope; *no* mention of video files, so is useless for my needs.

Of all the responses, this is the second one to mention (so far) the

Let me Pete & RePete; I downloaded the DLL and properly "registered" it.

Huh? HowinHELL am I using VirtualDubMOD to edit video files then????

ALL of the VirtualDub series edit video files - and as a preliminary they want you to strip the AUDIO file off, doable from within the series.

RwP

Howdy!

it.

First time you've mentioned registering it.

And how did your "properly 'registered' it"?

Via REGSVR32? Or via some web site?

RwP

i don't understand the problem ?, i write software here and there and i do have a AVI video stream viewer that i use from installed video devices or using the installed codac's for decompression of a file or compression into a desired format. it's all part of windows programming. did i miss something here?

No, it's not the only one that does what you want to do. As I and a couple others have mentioned before, Total Recorder will record anything that comes through your sound card. It will save the recorded audio to many formats, such as .wav, .mp3, and several others. I know it does because I just stripped the audio from a music video as it was playing in Media Player.

Why don't you get that chip off your shoulder and speak reasonably with the folks who, out of the kindness of their hearts, have offered assistance to you. Remember, the people who use these news groups are here because of a common interest, not out of any obligation to help whiners and bitchers such as yourself. To be a bit more terse, you should not have bothered us in an electronic repair group with your inane ability to select a software package to do your bidding.

Get a grip and grab a glass of cold iced tea to help you cool down.

Well, it was the first hit after I typed "extracting audio avi" in Google ;)

I think the real problem here is confusion of terminology. What you are trying to do is not "record from audio source". It's called extraction. Try Googling "extract audio from avi". In the world of audio processing, a file (mpeg, avi etc..) is not considered a valid sound "source". A sound card is a sound source. A microphone is a sound source. A line in is a sound source. SPIDF input is a sound source. But a file is not a sound source. So the program wasn't lying, you just misunderstood.

Of course, how should someone know to search for the word "extract" instead of "record"? Well, only by experience and maybe a thesarus. And that is the essence of good Googling skills.

Hint from an experienced Googler (I haven't been unable to find something yet): if what you're looking for does not appear in the first

I think Adobe Audition will extract the audio from a video file. It has a

Perhaps it's not the way you want to go, but as you play the A/V file, that software is capable of recording its associated sound to a file.

As others have pointed out, extraction is something different. But you didn't ask for extraction programs.

Actually, I think Adobe Premiere can do it, too.

Gee..take your own advice and *read* my requirements! The so-called "universal" sound capture programs are not made for video files, period. Thousands of people use those programs for *other* uses: CDs, sound file conversions, recording frommike / line inputs, etc - - - and *that* works. But *NOT* what i needed.

The secret being is to enter the correct request. Thanks for the heads up.

Yup! What i wanted is to "extract" the sound to some kind of sound file. Thanks to someone else, i got the program *made* for that and now i have what i needed.

Start from scratch. I downloaded a number of programs that falsely claimed that they would capture sound from any source. *NONE* of them worked. That is why i posted what you saw. Then someone mentioned a program written eXplicitly to do what i needed; i now have the audio file and the original AVI is intact. So from that point forward, i did not need to try yet another program that had the same claims (or less) than those i tried.

The person that gave me the solution mentioned that same term "extract". I am not used to trying alternate terminology, especially when i do not know what to use (and my wimpy thesarus does not help). Thanks for the tip.

Well, until now, i did not know that was the term / terminology.

Pardon me for dropping in late. With VirtualDub you can open a videofile and do a Save WAV to save the sound only from an AVI. I think you can do the same in Quicktime with MOV-files, but I'm not sure if you would need to have QT-Pro for that.

cheers

-martin-