Actually, these probably wouldn't work because my files are already on my hard drive because I record them from my TV capture card, which works, do to Snapstream's web interface. I use Imtoo Video to Audio converter, but using Autoit or something to automate this seems like it'd be impossible because there's no keyboard shortcuts in the thing and I have no sighted people to directly click the buttons needed for their window info tool to give the necessary parameters for their mouse clicking functions. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georgina" <gena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 4:09 AM Subject: RE: Automating Bookshare > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:53:59PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote: >> That's one of those things I hate about Microsoft as well. I have a >> program >> that records TV for me off a tuner card, and I'd like to run something as >> the command after the recording finishes that would convert the mpeg-2 > video >> into .wav or some other audio. I don't think I could find a script for >> Windows, much less Linux, that would convert all the .mpg's in one folder > to >> .wav's in another and then delete the original video files. > :End-Quote: > Doesn't tools like this meet your needs? > > DVD Audio Ripper v4.0 > Only for Windows > DVD Audio Ripper is a software DVD movie soundtrack ripper, DVD to MP3 > converter to rip DVD audio to MP3, WAV, AAC, AC3, OGG, RA, WMA and AU > formats. Using > DVD Audio Ripper, you can extract DVD audio, rip DVD movie soundtrack to > mp3 > and convert DVD to WAV with complete sound effects. > DVD Audio Ripper - DVD audio extractor and DVD sound track ripper to > extract audio from DVDs, convert DVD to MP3, and rip DVD audio to WAV > > But as this is a linux list VLC looks promising. Just try googling "mpeg2 > to wav": > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Converting_AVI_to_MPEG-2_with_AviSynth_and_TMPG > Enc_Xpress#Extracting_WAV_audio > > Gena > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >