<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Patton Echols <<a href="mailto:p.echols@comcast.net">p.echols@comcast.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Ray Parrish wrote: > Hello, > > I want to record myself playing along with you tube videos on my guitar > with gtkrecordmydesktop, but do not need the video that this program > records. > > Is there a program, or programs in the repositories that can extract the > sound from a video, and save it as an mp3 file? > > ffmpeg can do it, use the version from medibuntu so it has mp3 compiled in. So for a youtube video of something ffmpeg -i something.flv -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 320 something.mp3 Mplayer can do it too. Something like this: mplayer -dumpaudio somefile.flv -dumpfile somefile.mp3 Both can also handle other video file types. These examples should give rational results, but read the man pages for what you want to accomplish. </blockquote><div>you can use avidemux to extract audio from video file, its a GUI application </div></div> -- Alok Singh Mahor CSE, IIT Delhi <a href="http://www.alokmahor.tk">www.alokmahor.tk</a> Join the next generation of computing, Open Source, and Linux/GNU!