Help with linux-y stuff!

[misplaced_ice]

Let's say I have a video, right. Say I want to take a bit of dialogue from said video in a sound bite kind of a way - how do I go about that?

Ah, I love how completely inept I am. And I use the word "love" quite wrongly.

I use Ubuntu.I've found out a way to do it with VLC

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[jwm]

I expect there's a less nerdcore way of doing it than I use, but I haven't played about with many of the GUI video editing tools.

What I do is play the video in mplayer on the command line (without the GUI). It will print a bunch of garbage on the terminal, but the last line is interesting, as it's a progress meter of sorts:

Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
A: 29.8 V: 29.8 A-V: 0.006 ct: 0.023 747/747 14% 1% 2.6% 7 0 49%

Right arrow to fast forward your way to roughly where the dialogue starts, then pause it. The number after the ‘A:’ at the beginning of that line is the number of seconds in. Unpause it and let it play until your dialogue's done, then note the A number again. I suggest you give yourself a second or two each side of the dialogue, as you'll need to edit it to clean it up anyway.

Next, we play back again, but we

[misplaced_ice]

Haha - I understood up to "What I do is play the video in mplayer on the command line (without the GUI)." and then nothing until the audacity bit :)

I've found out a way to do it with VLC but thanks heaps anyway :) :)