[sdiy] Voyager waveform animation

[Tom May]

"Theo" <t.hogers at home.nl> writes:

> To get MP3 audio from a video file you need a stream splitter.
> Most video editing software can do this but there are also standalone
> utilities.
> Just google around, there is plenty of quality freeware video stuff out
> there.
> Depending on what format the source audio in the video file was and the tool
> used to separate the streams you may end up with a WAV or AC3 or MP2 or MP3
> or OGG or...
> 
> This works for most containers like MPG, AVI, OGM, VCD, SVCD, etc.
> However if you have a RM or a WMA source your out of luck.
> At least there are no (free) tools I know about.

You can use the virtual audio cable program to route audio from a
playback program into a recorder program.  It's not free but the demo
says it can route three minutes of audio before it starts to add
noise.

Tom.