Home Audio Techies: How to take sound from DVD to CD-RW?

[NozlerAtClemson]

Short background:
My father is not technically inclined to put it mildly. So I was suprised when he bought timelife's Doo-Wop 50's music DVDs. He thought he could at least play the sound in a normal CD player. Sad, I know.

I want to know if I can purchase a home audio cd burner and record the music playing from the dvds to a cd. Should be as simple as connecting the analog output from the dvd to the analog input on the cd burner. Here is what I don't know: How can I make each song a seperate track? The dvd will continue to output sound from song to song so how does the burner know when a track ends and another begins. Can I do this manually? Please help. This is for the man that funds my computer and other hobbies.

 

[OulOat]

Rip the audio tracks into wav files with a DVD audio ripper program, then burn it onto CD with any CD burning software. You might need to reencode every track because of the size of wavs; I don't know if there is more songs per DVD than CD or the quality of each song is better. Analog to Analog is a no-no, it lowers the quality to go from digital to analog then back to digital again.

 

[Howard]

You'll need a DVD-ROM to read the DVDs in your PC.

 

[OulOat]

Why don't he just buy a cheapo DVD standalone player? ~30 bucks and can play movies, mp3 CD, maybe divx, etc..

 

[NozlerAtClemson]

I never thought of using the computer. My constant companion is my laptop which doesn't have a dvd player b/c I always have a home audio dvd player in my dorm room. My server does have a dvd player though (I know dvd is kind of pointless in a server but it is the only optical drive I had laying around at the time). I will try what you suggest. What is the name of the ripper program you suggest?

 

[h8red]

I think the 2 links here will get you where you want to go.

link1

link2

I forgot exactly what I did but a friend of mine wanted a song off a DVD movie so I ripped it out using smartripper, I decoded with headac3he, and finally used cdwav to cut the song out of the movie and burned using nero

 

[alm99]

saving for later

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: alm99
saving for later

you know you can just add it to your favorite threads right?

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX

Originally posted by: alm99
saving for later

you know you can just add it to your favorite threads right?

I thought about it afterwards