How-to extract an mp3 audio file from a google video to load it to your ipod

8/10/2007; 2:46 AM

Are you so poor you cannot afford a video ipod, yet you still want to get the best out of google video presentations?

Google techtalks are talks and presentations about a diverse range of subjects which make perfect candidates for ipod listening. For most of the talks you can afford to sacrifice the powerpoint presentation and listen only to the audio. To extract the audio from a google video follow these steps:-

Software Required:-

1. Locate the file you want to download and save it to disk. This saves a gvp file of around 2kb on your drive.

step_1_save_file.jpg

2. Open the file with google video player. When you open the gvp file with google video player a gvi file is created. The gvi file is the actual video file (around 300mb for an hour of video). The default folder on windows is my documentsMy videosGoogle videos.

step_2_open_file.jpg

Step 2 alternative:
     i. Open the GVP File in Notepad
    ii. Copy/Paste the URL into your browser
   iii. Get the GVI File with .avi as the extension. (remember to rename back to .gvi)

3. Convert the gvi file into an avi file using GVI2AVI, to be able to manipulate it.

step_3_gvi_to_avi.jpg

4. Use media coder to extract the mp3 file from the avi file

a) Add the avi file by dragging the file to the window
b) Unselect the "enable audio" from the video tab
c) Set the audio options to lame mp3 encoder and enable audio
d) Click on start to extract an mp3 file from the avi file

step_4_mediacoder.jpg

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