How to rip the WMA2 track off an XVID movie

[kitkatdoom9]

I downloaded a 708MB file: let's call it movie.avi.

AVICodec tells me its soundtrack is in WMA (2) format.

I can get the sound to play with movie.avi if I open it in Winamp, but I'd rather just recompress & reattach the sound in MP3 format, since my Phillips player is pretty dodgy with DivX/XVID movies whose sound is anything but MP3. My friends' computers, where I might end up actually watching the movies, have the same issue.

I tried using Virtualdub to rip the WMA sound into a WAV, but that wav was flawed and couldn't be opened by any sound player/editor.

I've already searched the forum, doom9, & Google with various combinations of wma, divx, extract, rip, etc. Couldn't find anything.

How am I actually supposed to extract this file's sound?

[SeeMoreDigital]

READ THE FORUM RULES AGAIN...

We do not help people who "download" media from the internet!

[kitkatdoom9]

Actually, this is a perfectly legitimate public-domain file. I am a swing dancer, and we trade our event movies all the time. Just because I don't know the original encoder does not mean that it's an illegal download. Swing footage encoders often pass their compressions on anonymously to another dancer friend who has server space, so the farthest back you can trace a movie is to someone who doesn't know how to encode. Even if you do find the source, they often encoded it with some "export" function that came with the video camera. I said, "Let's call it movie.avi" to simplify things, not to hide some illegitimate behavior.

[SeeMoreDigital]

If that is the case then I apologise... but you really should have been more clear!

It sounds like your file may contain WMV video with WMA audio in AVI, I would have thought Windows Media Player 9/10 should be able to play it...


Cheers

[jon.schaffer]

Have you tried AUDIO -> FULL PROCESSING MODE before saving the WAVE file?
This should save the soundtrack to an uncompressed WAVE.

WinAmp plays the file correctly? So you could try an output plug-in which can save a WAVE file (e.g. NullSoft DiskWriter), and then you'll have _maybe_ a uncompressed WAVE file (I never tried this plug-in with a movie, but who knows?)

Hope this helps

Jon

[SeeMoreDigital]

Can you list exactly, what streams are in this file and the container used?

Thinking about it. I don't think it's possible to have WMV "video" and WMA "audio" in AVI


Cheers

[jon.schaffer]

Originally posted by SeeMoreDigital
I don't think it's possible to have WMV "video" and WMA "audio" in AVI

Yes, WMA in AVI is a hack: "DivX audio". Could this software (AVICodec) report is as genuine WMA?

Or - since this video comes from the *somewhere else* - maybe the AVI extension is fake (it would be .wmv). But... VDub doesn't open WMV (no Video for Windows codec available). :confused: