convert file.wmv to .wav ?

[Paul Smith]

On 9/16/07, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> 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