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Offline mjn.mixael

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Video-Audio Conversion & Handling Utilites
So, I'm setting up some recording stuff for a group. They do lectures weekly. Anyway, I setup a system to record video from a camera and audio from the sound system into a video file they can play back. (they technically do the lecture twice, but use the video the second time). Anyway... I'm looking for a couple things. I'm used to just using the available pro commercial products. I'm not really familiar with the random utilities about on the web.

I have two needs.

First, I'd love for a utility that is STUPID EASY to use for these people in order to take the input video file and output the audio as mp3. I know there's a ton of conversion programs available. Do you guys recommend any in particular that are reliable and not complicated. These people aren't the most tech savvy.

Second, I'm trying to find some sort of Windows utility to be able to easily send a window to a second screen and maximize is. Ideally it's be some sort of right click on the taskbar icon -> send to monitor 2 or something.
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Re: Video-Audio Conversion & Handling Utilites
well, I know of WebMBro/WebMConverter the "Webm for Retards". IIRC it's just a wrapper around ffmpeg, so you could do something like that, just fiddle with ffmpeg for a while and then make a simple script that a person would just need to drop a file on it and it'd work.
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Re: Video-Audio Conversion & Handling Utilites
First, I'd love for a utility that is STUPID EASY to use for these people in order to take the input video file and output the audio as mp3. I know there's a ton of conversion programs available. Do you guys recommend any in particular that are reliable and not complicated. These people aren't the most tech savvy.
By "stupid easy" do you mean "the task should be simple" or "the task should be completely automatable"?

Well, either way, you should be able to pull it off with VLC player and a batch file along these lines:
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"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc" -I dummy -vvv %1 --sout=#transcode{acodec="mpga",ab="512","channels=2"}:standard{access="file",mux="raw",dst="%1.mp3"} vlc://quit
Although I should note that I haven't actually tested that, and just got it off a Google search.
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Offline mjn.mixael

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Re: Video-Audio Conversion & Handling Utilites
Automated is definitely best. I'll have to test that out.
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