Converting from MPG to MP3?

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Back when it was all just audiotape, I used to transfer stereo movies and TV to cassette to listen to in the car (there's nothing like listening to a starship fly from one side of the Jeep to the other), but now I have only the CD player in the car.

I've been burning a LOT of VCDs lately of shows and movies I like and would love to listen to on CD... is there a program or proceedure by which I can convert a video MPG file into an audio MP3 file?

Thanks! Dough

-- Dough Hubler (kalel@chartertn.net), November 12, 2002

Answers

Well, there is a proram called VirtualDub that will extract the audio from a video file, and save it as a .wav file that you can burn to a CD. I would recommend that program for what you are trying to do.

You can get it at: http://www.vcdhelp.us, which by the way, is an excellent site with tons of video related freeware, articles, discussions, and everything this site has but ten times better.

VirtualDub - go with that to make your idea a reality. Hope that helps.

-- DigitallyFascinated (llllll_rizzo_llllll@yahoo.com), November 17, 2002.


TotalRecorder will let you record ANY sound coming from your computer soundcard into a wav file. You can record any type of sound, be it streaming audio, a DVD movie, sound via your line-in jack, CDs, anything. So, you could be playing your mpg file or DVD movie, just hit record on Total Recorder, and it'll save the sound as a .wav file

I'm not sure what the url is, but do a search for it. You're free then to convert that .wav file to a .mp3 file using your favourite converting program (thousands of freeware converters available on the Web)

Regards

Dean Phillips SIM Solutions

-- Dean (dean.phillips@4mymail.co.uk), February 01, 2003.


Use Winamp to play mpg and make sure u got preferences/output/nullsoft disk writer configured.

-- jd (el@chartertn.net), September 21, 2003.

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