Sometimes you might need to extract audio from a video of yours to be able to listen to it using your audio player - a portable MP3 player, for instance. That can be quite easy if you use our AVS Video Converter. Follow the steps below to learn how to do that.

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Click here to download it. After the download is finished, run the AVSVideoConverter.exe file and follow the installation wizard instructions.

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To select a video you would like to convert hit the Browse... button next to the Input File Name field. In the opened Windows Explorer Window browse for the necessary DVD folder:

Note: when your input is a DVD Disc, you will need to select the path to your source file: X:\Video_TS\Video_TS.IFO. "X" stands for your DVD-ROM or the hard disk drive folder where your DVD is stored:

It is usually safe to select the IFO file, rather than VOB file, because the IFO file contains the information about the entire DVD structure and this way you will avoid audio and video de-synch problems when converting. Also, most DVDs have several VOB files (files with actual video) and if you convert VOBs instead of IFO, you will have to merge them afterwards, which is not the case with the IFO files.

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Quite often DVDs and even .avi files contain several audio tracks. That's why you should select the necessary one prior to extraction.

Click the Advanced >> button to see the additional input video file parameters:

In case the video contains more than one audio track you will see the drop-down box under the Audio - Audio Format. Click it with the mouse and select the one you need to extract from the list:

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Now you can click the Edit button to open the Edit Input File(s) window:

This window can be used not only to extract audio but also to select which part of the audio track exactly you will extract.

To select the deletion area, you need to mark its beginning and end. Put the cursor to the place where you would like the deletion to start and press the Trim Start button:

The end of the deletion area is marked similarly - select the final point of the area to be excluded from the output audio, click it with the mouse and press the Trim End button:

You can additionally select the exact location of the deletion area initial and final points. Click the deletion area with the mouse and use the Properties button to open the Properties - Trim window:

Here you can use the Start Time and End Time fields to enter the exact position for the deletion area. Click Done when ready.

The other deletion areas (in case you need them) are set the same way.

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Now that the necessary adjustments are made, you can start audio track extraction. Click the Export Audio button:

The windows explorer window will be opened to let you select the place and format for your audio track:

Select the necessary path for your output audio, its format (MP3 - compressed audio format that will save place on your computer hard disk drive at the cost of the audio quality, or Uncompressed PCM - a format with excellent quality that can need quite a lot of free hard disk space depending on the output audio length) and name, and click the Save button. It will take some time depending on the output audio length and your computer configuration. You will see the progress:

Now you can playback your extracted audio using your favorite audio player.

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