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On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 23:58, Neil wrote: <snip> > > mplayer file.wma -ao pcm -aofile file.wav will convert to a wav file from > which you can convert to an mp3/ogg yourself, or there are options to convert > straight to mp3... I just can't remember them I know it has been touched > upon quite recently though (I think it was something to do with extracting > the audio from .mov files). > > http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/homepage/design6/info.html > MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 > CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, > ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA > files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch > VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too (without the > avifile library). <snip> Thanks Neil, Mplayer does the job straight out of the box. I had googled and had a look at freshmeat but couldn't what I needed from the mass of results. This is typical of the problems I have with Linux. It's not that there isn't a tool to do the job, rather that there are too many and it takes a while to wade through the possible solutions. Regards -- Mike Callaghan Cornwall -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.