

Since the source code for this tool is not available and it is only available as a. mp4, make sure the file extension matches the selected profile.Ĭlick Start to start the extraction. Set the destination for the extracted audio to be saved and as the default format for saving converted videos is.

Here, choose the desired audio format by selecting the appropriate Profile option. Video Audio 10Ĭlick on the Add button and select the desired video file, then choose the Convert/Save button to proceed to the next step. One of the cool VLC tips is to convert videos to audio.Ĭlick on Convert/Save in the Media drop down menu or use the ctrl + R shortcut. You can download subtitles, synchronize subtitles and what not. VLC can do a lot of things other than playing videos. If you use Linux as a daily driver, you’re quite likely to have VLC Media Player installed. See here for details.Devuan Beowulf Method 1: Extract audio from video using VLC Media Player Ubuntu 14.04 does not have ffmpeg in standard repositories, but you could add ppa:mc3man/trusty-media repository and install ffmpeg package to get the needed software. For other codecs than mp3 and vorbis it converts audio to ogg. Notes: the output files are created in sub-directory output it creates in the beginning (if necessary).

To convert many files: for vid in *.mp4 do ffmpeg -i "$vid" -vn -acodec libvorbis "$".ogg To convert one file: ffmpeg -i videofile.mp4 -vn -acodec libvorbis audiofile.ogg So why not leave the audio format detection up to ffmpeg? But what if the audio in the mp4 file is not one of those? you'd have to transcode anyway. You say you want to "extract audio from them (mp3 or ogg)".
