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    RESOLVED: How to convert mp4 or flv to mp3

    I want to extract the sound from a Youtube video. I have read many suggestions on the Net, but none of them work except perhaps the one suggesting that I recompile ffmpeg. But I am definitely not comfortable with compiling pieces of my system. Besides, there ought to be another way.

    Using vlc to convert gives a message

    It seems your FFMPEG (libavcodec) installation lacks the following encoder:
    MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3.

    Using ffmpeg says

    Encoder (codec id 86017) not found for output stream #0.0

    I am at vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic.

    Clearly there is something missing. So how to install it? Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance.
    'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain
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    Re: How to convert mp4 or flv to mp3

    Ok, I found the solution on the Ubuntu Forum at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1614446

    Need to install kubuntu-restricted-extras

    Thanks anyway.
    'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain
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      Re: RESOLVED: How to convert mp4 or flv to mp3

      Once you have done that an insanely easy way to extract the music is to do an add-on to Firefox: video download helper.

      Since you already have ffmpeg installed, when you click it and then choose the "convert" option, you can convert to mpeg, mp3 several other options.

      woodsmoke
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        Re: RESOLVED: How to convert mp4 or flv to mp3

        Actually, I have video download helper installed. I just didn't know it could convert to pure mp3.

        Thanks for the tip, Woodsmoke.
        'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain
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          Re: RESOLVED: How to convert mp4 or flv to mp3

          ffmpeg has its own GUI named WINFF.
          Kubuntu 16.04 on two computers and Kubuntu 17.04 on DELL Latitude 13
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            Re: RESOLVED: How to convert mp4 or flv to mp3

            you're quite welcome!

            The media companies just don't want to admit that people have figured out that they don't want to buy a 45 rpm of Gene Pitney singing Town Without Pity on one side and I can't even remember what was on the other side.

            CD companies have made quite a bit of change from me downloading "for personal use" .... for which they oh my golly LOSE A SALE!!! .... a video and extracting the mp3 to listen to several times and then later buying the cd.

            woodsmoke
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              for now I can't install this encoder MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3, resource is just not available
              some ideas?
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