Extract audio from a DVD in linux

Although you can use K9Copy to extract the audio track from DVD some times is more convenient to use the commanline. Ripping the sound track of a DVD movie through the terminal can be achieved using transcode and lsdvd commands.

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linux DVD backup tools

here is a list of handy Ubuntu Linux DVD backup tools:

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Dump audio track from wmv video

Various graphical applications can do that when you are manipulating a xvid or mpeg video, from VLC to Avidemux. However if you want to extract the audio from a wmv video and none of them work mplayer does! mplayer tmp.wmv -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio.mp3

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convert ogv to avi

How to convert ogv (ogg video) to avi (audio video interlaced): mencoder -idx input.ogv -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o output.avi This is particularly useful to convert the output of recordmydesktop desktop recorder.

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Convert DTS tracks to AC3

mkvdts2ac3 is a bash script which can be used for converting the DTS in Matroska (MKV) files to AC3. It’s especially useful whenever you happen to have a Matroska mkv video which has more than one audio tracks and some of them are AC3 whereas some other are in DTS. Willing to compact the movie [...]

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use wacom bamboo tablet as a touchpad with relative mapping

If you are willing to buy a tablet for drawing, photo editing, writing, or simply having fun I strongly advise you to only focus on Wacom tablets. Despite not providing official support for linux that company actively supports linux open source driver development and is also eager to provide assistance for linux users. At the [...]

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SMILE – Powerful Slideshow Maker In Linux

SMILE is a slideshow building program by Stephane Gibault, author of manDVD, and is the successor to manslide. Currently it’s not possible to use both manDVD and SMILE since they make use of different versions of sox tools. The successor of manDVD (called 2manDVD on which the Stephane is currently working on) will be compatible [...]

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Dividere un file con il relativo CUE

Ecco come dividere l’unico grande file .flac in tanti file quante sono le canzoni che contiene e taggarle in automatico con il file cue: Prima di tutto installiamo cuetools, shntool e flac: sudo apt-get install cuetools shntool flac Fatto questo siamo pronti a dividere il file con il segunte comando: cuebreakpoints foo.cue | shnsplit -o [...]

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Encode decode 3GPP AMR files in Ubuntu

3GPP AMR is a widespread audio file format in mobile devices. Currently there is no support under linux. The only option you have is to transcode them to a playable format.

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remove audio clips with Audacity (hard limiter)

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Click_Removal In order to be able to remove clicks from recordings using audacity you can use various tools among which the hard-limiter plugin which is available in the swh-plugins package in the Ubuntu repositories. Install it: apt-get install swh-plugins Then you’ll then find it in Effects menu under Plugins 46-60 submenu

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