convert file.wmv to .wav ?

[Bob Goodwin]

Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg?

I tried ImageMagick 'convert' but I don't seem to be able to make it 
work, perhaps because I don't have the command right?  As usual I'm 
having trouble with the man page ...

Or there may be a better way to do this.  I have an audio file in .wmv 
that I would like to compress, it's not very important but I hate to let 
it go undone.

Bob Goodwin

[Adalbert Prokop]

Bob Goodwin wrote on Sunday 16 September 2007:
> Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg?

lame file.wav file.mp3

or

oggenc -o file.ogg file.wav

That should do the trick. ;) Lame is in the "lame" package and oggenc is 
part of the "vorbis-tools" package.

If you want to set the bitrate, CBR/VBR setting or other options you will 
have to read the manual pages.
> I tried ImageMagick 'convert' but I don't seem to be able to make it
> work, perhaps because I don't have the command right?  As usual I'm
> having trouble with the man page ...

Here an excerpt from convert's man page: (man convert)
--- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< ---
convert  -  convert  between  image formats as well as resize an image,
blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much
more.
--- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< ---

The reference to "image formats" clearly states, that it's for pictures, 
not for sound files.

"(...) ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X
Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF,
and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color
reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can
either save the completed work in the original format or a different
one. ImageMagick also includes command line programs for creating
animated or transparent .gifs, creating composite images, creating
thumbnail images, and more. (...)"

[Bob Goodwin]

Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote on Sunday 16 September 2007:
> > Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg?
>
> lame file.wav file.mp3
>
> or
>
> oggenc -o file.ogg file.wav
>
> That should do the trick. ;) Lame is in the "lame" package and oggenc is 
> part of the "vorbis-tools" package.
>
> If you want to set the bitrate, CBR/VBR setting or other options you will 
> have to read the manual pages.
> > I tried ImageMagick 'convert' but I don't seem to be able to make it
> > work, perhaps because I don't have the command right?  As usual I'm
> > having trouble with the man page ...
>
> The reference to "image formats" clearly states, that it's for pictures, 
> not for sound files.

Unfortunately the file I received and want to convert is ".wmv" and the 
above applications apparently don't support wmv?  This .wmv file is only 
audio, no images?

I can play this .wmv audio file with vlc but then I need a way to record 
it as something else such as .wav which I can then compress to ogg or mp3.

Lame does produce an mp3 file but it looks like white noise when 
displayed with Audacity.  Aplayer also produces a blast of white noise 
in the loudspeaker.

I thank you for the suggestions though ...

Bob Goodwin

[Kenny Gow]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg?
>
> I tried ImageMagick 'convert' but I don't seem to be able to make it 
> work, perhaps because I don't have the command right?  As usual I'm 
> having trouble with the man page ...
>
> Or there may be a better way to do this.  I have an audio file in .wmv 
> that I would like to compress, it's not very important but I hate to let 
> it go undone.

I would use ffmpeg for this, something like,

ffmpeg -i file.wmv file.wav

--Kenny

[Bob Goodwin]

Kenny Gow wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg?
> >
> > I tried ImageMagick 'convert' but I don't seem to be able to make it 
> > work, perhaps because I don't have the command right?  As usual I'm 
> > having trouble with the man page ...
> >
> > Or there may be a better way to do this.  I have an audio file in 
> > .wmv that I would like to compress, it's not very important but I 
> > hate to let it go undone.
>
> I would use ffmpeg for this, something like,
>
> ffmpeg -i file.wmv file.wav
>
> --Kenny

Ok, that produced a .wav file that plays in Audacity!  It's a large 
voice file that needs compression to bring it down to a reasonable size.

Thanks for the help.

Bob Goodwin

[Paul Smith]

On 9/16/07, Bob Goodwin  wrote:
> > > Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg?
> > >
> > > I tried ImageMagick 'convert' but I don't seem to be able to make it
> > > work, perhaps because I don't have the command right?  As usual I'm
> > > having trouble with the man page ...
> > >
> > > Or there may be a better way to do this.  I have an audio file in
> > > .wmv that I would like to compress, it's not very important but I
> > > hate to let it go undone.
> >
> > I would use ffmpeg for this, something like,
> >
> > ffmpeg -i file.wmv file.wav
>
> Ok, that produced a .wav file that plays in Audacity!  It's a large
> voice file that needs compression to bring it down to a reasonable size.

Or:

mplayer -dumpaudio your_file.wmv

The resulting file is in wav format.

Paul

[Adalbert Prokop]

Bob Goodwin wrote on Sunday 16 September 2007:
> > > Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or
> > > .ogg?
> > lame file.wav file.mp3
> > or
> > oggenc -o file.ogg file.wav
> Unfortunately the file I received and want to convert is ".wmv" and the
> above applications apparently don't support wmv?  This .wmv file is
> only audio, no images?

Sorry, I got your problem wrong. I did not read your mail carefully enough 
and was sure you meant .wav files - which obviously was not the case. :)

[Matthew Flaschen]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Ok, that produced a .wav file that plays in Audacity!  It's a large
> voice file that needs compression to bring it down to a reasonable size.

You should now be able to easily compress it to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 with
the commands Adalbert Prokop gave.

Matt Flaschen

[Bob Goodwin]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > Ok, that produced a .wav file that plays in Audacity!  It's a large
> > voice file that needs compression to bring it down to a reasonable size.
>
> You should now be able to easily compress it to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 with
> the commands Adalbert Prokop gave.
>
> Matt Flaschen

Yes I understand that.  Actually I used Audacity since I wanted to edit 
the file also.  It was a voice file and I was able to reduce it [mp3] to 
about one tenth of the .wav file size.

Thanks.

Bob Goodwin

[Tim]

On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 12:11 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Unfortunately the file I received and want to convert is ".wmv" and
> the above applications apparently don't support wmv?  This .wmv file
> is only audio, no images?

WMV is a Windows media video file, of some sort.  It's a container.  It
can be a container for a movie, a silent movie, or just audio (though
I'd expect a WMA file, for that).

VLC is a media player that handles various formats, and allows
transcoding between some of them.  Mplayer can, too.  Amongst others...

[Chris Jones]

On Sunday 16 September 2007 8:42:02 pm Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> > Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > > Ok, that produced a .wav file that plays in Audacity!  It's a large
> > > voice file that needs compression to bring it down to a reasonable size.
> >
> > You should now be able to easily compress it to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 with
> > the commands Adalbert Prokop gave.
> >
> > Matt Flaschen
>
> Yes I understand that.  Actually I used Audacity since I wanted to edit
> the file also.  It was a voice file and I was able to reduce it [mp3] to
> about one tenth of the .wav file size.

I've always found transcode pretty good. You can go from pretty much any 
format to any other, in one go (it delegates the real work to the other 
backends, like lame, oggenc, ffmpeg etc.).

http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode

available via yum

Chris

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 12:11 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> > Bob Goodwin wrote on Sunday 16 September 2007:
> > > Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg?
> >
> > lame file.wav file.mp3
> >
> > or
> >
> > oggenc -o file.ogg file.wav
> >
> > That should do the trick. ;) Lame is in the "lame" package and oggenc is 
> > part of the "vorbis-tools" package.
> >
> > If you want to set the bitrate, CBR/VBR setting or other options you will 
> > have to read the manual pages.
> > > I tried ImageMagick 'convert' but I don't seem to be able to make it
> > > work, perhaps because I don't have the command right?  As usual I'm
> > > having trouble with the man page ...
> >
> > The reference to "image formats" clearly states, that it's for pictures, 
> > not for sound files.
>
> Unfortunately the file I received and want to convert is ".wmv" and the 
> above applications apparently don't support wmv?  This .wmv file is only 
> audio, no images?
>
> I can play this .wmv audio file with vlc but then I need a way to record 
> it as something else such as .wav which I can then compress to ogg or mp3.
>
> Lame does produce an mp3 file but it looks like white noise when 
> displayed with Audacity.  Aplayer also produces a blast of white noise 
> in the loudspeaker.

This would be about the same thing, converting from a video format to
audio only.
ffmpeg -i input.flv -ar 48000 -ac 2 output.mp3
is what I use to convert .flv to mp3 or wav or whatever, like ogg. 
It'll take a video converter to handle this. Not an audio one. Ric

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Seg 17 Set 2007, Ric Moore escreveu:
> On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 12:11 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> > > Bob Goodwin wrote on Sunday 16 September 2007:
> > > > Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or
> > > > .ogg?

There were many advices about good CLI software that are good at the 
job. However, if you want to try a GUI application, try SoundConverter. 
It's in Fedora repositories.

[]'s
Marcelo

[charles f. zeitler]

--- Tim  wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 12:11 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > Unfortunately the file I received and want to convert is ".wmv" and
> > the above applications apparently don't support wmv?  This .wmv file
> > is only audio, no images?
>
> WMV is a Windows media video file, of some sort.  It's a container.  It
> can be a container for a movie, a silent movie, or just audio (though
> I'd expect a WMA file, for that).
>
> VLC is a media player that handles various formats, and allows
> transcoding between some of them.  Mplayer can, too.  Amongst others...
>
> -- 
> [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
> 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 i686 i386
>
> Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.

may i mention:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacpl/

integrates nicely with konqueror/amarok

charles zeitler

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[Kelly Miller]

On Wednesday, October 3, 2007 6:42:35 pm charles f. zeitler wrote:
> --- Tim  wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 12:11 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > > Unfortunately the file I received and want to convert is ".wmv" and
> > > the above applications apparently don't support wmv?  This .wmv file
> > > is only audio, no images?

Although having a WMV that is just audio is unusual, if you're a KDE user, I 
would suggest searching KDE-Apps for "AudioKonverter".  It's an Action menu 
for Konqueror that does conversions between different audio file types 
(mainly Ogg Vorbis, MP3, Wav and Flac)...

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 19:13 -0400, Kelly wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 3, 2007 6:42:35 pm charles f. zeitler wrote:
> > --- Tim  wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 12:11 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately the file I received and want to convert is ".wmv" and
> > > > the above applications apparently don't support wmv?  This .wmv file
> > > > is only audio, no images?
>
> Although having a WMV that is just audio is unusual, if you're a KDE user, I 
> would suggest searching KDE-Apps for "AudioKonverter".  It's an Action menu 
> for Konqueror that does conversions between different audio file types 
> (mainly Ogg Vorbis, MP3, Wav and Flac)...

----
I thought an audio only windows media player file was .asf

anyway, ffmpeg can convert it