Ripping AC3 from AVIs

[The Mad One]

I have a couple of episode AVIs which have been encoded with AC3 audio, i would like to rip/convert this audio to mp3 or simular to decrease its file size, i cant seem to find any tools that do this, i know there are ac3-mp3 tools but u cant open avi with them (as far as i know i havnt tested them all) i wondered if anyone could point out a tool to do this, like some sort of plug-in for virtualdub considering it cant play ac3 audio even with the ac3 codec that u can get from the nimo codec pack.

Thanks in advance

[UncasMS]

load your avi into nandub

file => save wav will let you extract the present audio stream

make sure to call the file *.ac3 and then convert this ac3 with for example besweet!


or set video to direct stream and under audio use compression then save the file to another name.

[The Mad One]

thanks ive never used nandub ill try it

[The Mad One]

ah you can do that with virtual dub

doh *smacks head*

thanks anyway

[UncasMS]

nandub has better support for various audio formats, that's why is suggested nandub instead of vd, though the handling is identical.