Convert video to audio files

[saro29]

Is there anyway to convert video to audio file format (mp3/mp4) within GBPVR? My goal is to record shows like Mad Money in both video and mp3 or cdtrack format and transfer via bluetooth to the phone so I can listen during drive. Any info or guidance is appreciated. Thank you!

[Pob]

Is there anyway to convert video to audio file format (mp3/mp4) within GBPVR? My goal is to record shows like Mad Money in both video and mp3 or cdtrack format and transfer via bluetooth to the phone so I can listen during drive. Any info or guidance is appreciated. Thank you!

Don't know about within gbpvr, but I extract audio using xilisoft 3gp video converter (it's just called video converter now) from http://www.xilisoft.com/
It produces good quality mp3 audio from mpeg, but can also convert to or from just about any kind of video and audio file.
I use it to convert recordings to 3GPP video for my mobile phone
Pob

[Zato]

I'm needing to do the same thing... anyone suggest a free solution?

[JonnyCam]

Chuck the MPEG into VirtualdubMod (although it will take a while to parse the MPEG) and go into Stream List and save as wave, then encode as mp3 using whatever program you like.

Or you could use the transcode option in video library to make it into an AVI, and load that AVI into virtual dub, then in the stream list, you can demux it to an MP3 (just make sure the transcode profile you are using will have the MP3 bitrate you require) (loading the AVI into Virtdub will be instant, as it doesn't parse the file like an MPEG)

Can you just load an MP2 file straight into Nero and use it to create an audio CD track?

[Satori]

Saw this thread, it is exactly what I want to do but I want to make a batch file to automatically convert the morning news at 5am to an MP3. I can then load it on my phone for my hour drive to work

I would need to somehow wildcard the name of the news program since it would change every day and have the MP3 conversion be part of GBPVR or a separate program that can be called from a batch file.

Has anyone done this?

[HtV]

I guess you could make a ffmpeg-commandline to do this, then you could add it to the custom transcoding lines in config.xml. This way youn could run it from the videolib.

[Satori]

That would work. The only thing is automatically starting the conversion at a set time or after a specific program.

Postprocessing.bat is out because I don't want to convert everything.

Can the conversions in GBPVR be called from a batch file that runs at a specific time?

[David]

That would work. The only thing is automatically starting the conversion at a set time or after a specific program.

Postprocessing.bat is out because I don't want to convert everything.

Can the conversions in GBPVR be called from a batch file that runs at a specific time?

You could probably add some commands to postprocessing.bat to handle the specific instance. You have the channel number available to check against, and may be able to rig something up to check the programming name with a wildcard.

[HtV]

Sorry had to make dinner first

You could add the following line to the <customffmpegconversions> part in config.xml. make a backup first, then edit it in notepad or any other simple text editor.

Code:

<Conversion name="Mp3" cmd="-y -i {SOURCE_FILE} -vn -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ab 160 -y  {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".mp3" />

It writes a mp3 file with a bitrate of 160, you could edit that if you want.
It works for me.

[Satori]

FWIW I resolved this for my own usage

I set up CBS news to record at 5-6am every weekday. I set it so only the last episode is kept. Then I have task scheduler run this script every weekday at 6:15am:

Code:

@echo off
F:
cd\
cd video
for %%f in (cbs*.mpg) do "c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\third party\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -i "%%f" "D:\news\cbsnews.mp3"

I will set the directory to sync automatically to my phone over USB.