Audio capture from DVD

[GSpeare]

I like having movie sounds on my PC. In the old days, I made an audio tape from VHS, hooked up a cassette player to my PC, and digitized the sound from there. Now that my fancy new rig has a DVD drive, it seems to me that it should be possible to shorten this process. Is there an easy way to get sounds from a DVD drive?

 

[datallah]

you can do it one of a number of ways.

You could RIP the vobs to your hard drive with something like smart ripper (needs about 5 Gigs) and then you can rip the audio track out to a wav with ac3dec (an addl. 1 GB).

Or.. you could play the movie in the background and capture the sound segment that you want with sound recorder or something..

 

[Pederv]

You should just be able to go into your mixer and record the output of your audio. Instead of your microphone as your input select one of your system outputs (analog audio or digital audio).

 

[DieHardware]

datallah when you rip the vobs to the hard drive does it keep the multichannel(Dolby Digital, DTS) soundtrack intact or just a stereo copy? GSpeare sorry to but in on your thread.

 

[madthumbs]

I believe using DVD2AVI to extract the ac3 file keeps the 5.1 dolby digital intact, but I'm not positive after trying to get it to play through digital out to a reciever. The sound is definetly better than Pro Logic though as I get great surround sound through the sound card.

If you're just extracting the sound you may be able to do that directly from the DVD since you won't be using the video anyway. As I understand it the only reason a ripper is used is to work around macrovision which only affects the video.

 

[GSpeare]

<< GSpeare sorry to but in on your thread. >>



I'll flame you next time.

 

[datallah]

DieHardware..

When you rip the vobs to the hard drive, you are doing just that.... copying the vobs as they are to your hard drive (ok... without CSS, but that doesn't affect anything except your ability to play). The audio track(s) and all subtitles and etc are still intact.

However, when you convert it to a wav, you do lose any addl. info.

 

[DieHardware]

Thanks guys, just wanted to burn my favourite 5.1 concert dvd's to cd so I could listen to them (without having to turn on the tv to set them to multi-channel sound using the onscreen menu-just to listen to them,uggh). GSpeare flame away-but it won't do you much good-I'm already roasting here in 37C heat.