-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 converting movies to .wav is easy under Linux, with the help of zsh. for i in *.mpg;do mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:file="${i:r}.wav" "$i" && rm "$i";done a bit of explanation: the[ && symbols after the command says run the rm command only if the first command (in this case mplayer) succeeded. the ${i:r} is a zsh specific extension that will strip the extension off the filename in $i. If you wanted to do this in windows, I have no idea how you would string the two commands together - but here's a line out of my useful commands file that should get you headed on the right path: for %i in (*.avi) do d:\mplayer\mplayer -vc null -vo null -dumpaudio -dumpfile "%~ni.mp3" "%i" - - Tyler -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAke9NgsACgkQTsjaYASMWKSUCQCfeA0/XDn8+Z+8ooHpxiwr3CRB DikAoJo/EpJUTe4Q91NTHBcmWB2gHobq =mE/x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----