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Capturing audio from a VLC Media Player (solved)

Descendant XDescendant X Skyrim is my god now.Outpost 31Registered User regular
edited April 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
So I was watching a video file using VLC and a great quote came up that I'd really like to use as some sort of ringtone. I attempted to use Audacity to record the audio, but nothing was captured. The file in question is an .mkv file. I couldn't suss out what capture stream I should use in Audacity so I may have just missed something there.

Any suggestions?

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  • stigweardstigweard Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Did you set the recording device in the audio control panel (windows) to "what you hear"?

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  • robaalrobaal Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Open VLC preferences, tick "advanced settings" in the bottom right corner.

    Audio -> Output Modules change "Audio output module" to "File"

    Go to Audio -> Output Modules -> File and change channels to 1 (ie. mono) for a ringtone, I suppose. You can also change the filename and path. By default it will create "audiofile.wav" in VLC's directory, which is a plain wave, so you can encode it to mp3 or whatever you like.

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  • Descendant XDescendant X Skyrim is my god now. Outpost 31Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    That did the trick. Thanks for the help, robaal.

    This can be locked now.

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