avi to wav - your good / quality / favorite way

[Liquidfusion]

Hi. Is there a good way to make wav files from avi?

1) I can export avi from adobe premiere 6.5 timeline to make wmv. Here you can control video and audio quality.

2) video converter / www.softdepo.com
You can drag / drop / batch convert files. Seems audio is not important here. I like to lower video quality, keeping 128kbps 44kHz audio. People forgive bad video over bad sound.

3) super (C)www.erightsoft.com/Superdc.html
Good overall file converter. uses WPV8.

4) virtualdubmod ??? www.virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/
What settings? how do you use avisynth for batch processing here?

[stickboy]

4) virtualdubmod ??? www.virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/
What settings?Settings? You just ask VirtualDub (or VirtualDubMod, whichever floats your boat) to save the audio as a wave file. If you use the direct-stream-copy mode, then no processing is done; it's just demuxing the existing video from the audio, so it's lossless.

how do you use avisynth for batch processing here?You don't. How is AviSynth related to your question?

[foxyshadis]

Yeah, this is definitely audio forum material, or maybe containers.

Batch processing? ffmpeg in a batch file:

for %%A in (%1\*.avi) do ffmpeg -i %%A -vn -acodec copy %%A.wav

Drag a folder onto it. I leave customization as an exercise to the reader.

[Liquidfusion]

What's a few letters? I meant WMV files...

as in ...... Is there a good way to make WMV files from avi?

[setarip_old]

Hi!Is there a good way to make WMV files from avi?I believe Microsoft offers a free set of tools for that purpose...

[Liquidfusion]

Possibly it's my luck but wmvenc stops after 1st pass encoding. Will try it again.