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I set Verbosity to 2 and specified the location of the log file. But this time, when I ran the conversion, it worked. I ended up with a normal MP3 file. And the log file was empty. There were a lot of false starts, both this time and in my previous efforts. VLC's behavior seems very inconsistent. Bu...

I just tried using RAW with an MP3 extension. VLC produced a file and added a .raw extension to the file name. I changed the extension to .mp3. I was able to open and play the file in both Windows Media Player and Goldwave, but only 22 minutes of the nearly 3 hours of programming on the video were o...

I just updated to the latest version of VLC. I'm running Windows 10. I want to extract audio from a DVD, producing just an MP3 file. I found the instructions to do this in a couple of places; both showed the same steps. So I opened the DVD, selected No Disc Menus, then selected Convert from the Play...

So, what can I do about it?

And can I prevent it? I'm happy that I was able to get the process to work, but I'm wondering why the file that resulted is so huge. The only change that I made (knowingly, at least) was to rotate the video 90 degrees, yet the converted file ended up about 4 times the size of the original. I did not...