[MPlayer-users] extract audio

[Guldo K]

The Wanderer writes:
 > The canonical method is
 > 
 > mplayer filename.avi -dumpaudio -dumpfile filename.audio
 > 
 > but I've sometimes had problems getting that to produce a valid,
 > MPlayer-playable file.
 > 
 > If it doesn't work for you, and you're willing to lose some audio
 > quality, you can try
 > 
 > mplayer -ao pcm -vo null -vc dummy
 > 
 > and encode the resulting WAV file with your audio encoder of choice.
 > This results in lower audio quality than was present in the original
 > AVI, but it's nearly foolproof in getting *some* version of the audio
 > into a separate form.

Thanks a lot!
The first method produces a quite 'low-quality' mp3, is there
a better way? lameopts cannot be used, can it?
I think I'd use the second one.

Bye,

*Guldo*