:::::extracting audio from avi or mpeg-4???

[fgbogdan]

i've been into the archive.org site latelly and i have a few movies
downloaded as avi files as well as "editable" mpeg-4 files__

i'd like to use some of the audio and i thought i could open the
files in nuendo [which i've used quick time files before to do this]
and chop'em up a bit but avi files didn't give the audio track and
the mpeg-4 couldn't be recognized__

i've also tried premiere 6.5 and although the audio track from the
avi files was present no sound was heard - and no luck with mpeg-4__

i've checked the faq's on archive.org and they only had info for mac
users, and suppouselly the "editable" mpeg-4 files could be used in final
cut pro for editing but no other info for pc programs__

any ideas on how to get around this without having to re-record the
audio stream as it plays?? maybe i'm missing some codecs to do this
or is there other programs that would let me do this??


tanx________

[Tommyknocker]

What happened when you loaded the video in Virtual Dub mod and selected File=>Save wav...

[fgbogdan]

i haven't tried that program yet- - i didn't actually wanna go thru other
programs, install them, and figure out which might or might not work - -
i wanna get some info first, see if anybody tried this and if it worked and
with what __

you think virtual dub would do it??

[Tommyknocker]

Yes.

[hastey]

Use VirtualDub - you'll have no probs

[ZippyP.]

Use VirtualDub - you'll have no probs

Best of all...it's free!

[fgbogdan]

tanx for all the info guys, i did load up virtualdub and saved it as wav
and it works great - it's also very fast _ _