How do I record sound from a DVD playing on my computer?

[Prodigy^]

kinda lame question, but my situation is this: i want to record some sound from a DVD (the b*tch in D minor song with all the conversation etc from South park), and finally make it an mp3 file. thing is, when i start stuff like Cool Edit 2000 or windows recorder and hit record, then play some music, nothing happens. I guess it tries to record from an external source, and a DVD drive seemingly isn't that

anyone know what settings to chance to allow me to record music being played on the computer / from the soundcard?

thanks

 

[AndyHui]

What I did was rip and decrypt the vob, save the sound stream as a wav and then convert to MP3. That's probably the long way around...there are a few programs that will rip+decrypt, then automatically save the sound stream as an MP3.

 

[Prodigy^]

heh funny you should post that, i JUST finished doing excactly that (used http://www.vcdhelp.com)

for future reference I'd like to get the question answered still though, but thanks.

 

[Oyeve]

I que up the dvd and kick off the creative labs recording program, then I save to a wav file and encode to mp3.

 

[piasabird]

I would think you would need an output from the dvd to the sound card, just like on an audio CDROM. Newer sound cards may have an aux in or dvd in. Just use that input to record off of on the sound-card software. What you record the sound as is up to you. I would think you could rip the sound into an MP3 if you have any MP3 software.

 

[lamga]

I had the same problem, but with trying to record sound off an AVI. You're right, anything that's internally played - DVDs, CDs, AVIs, WAVs etc. - won't be picked up by Sound Recorder because usually the Record In is set to the microphone. I used to use a shareware program called TotalRecorder that could do the trick. Nowadays, in my Audigy Mixer, I can specifically re-route the Record In to, say, Line Out, Speaker Out or "What U Hear". Try to see if your sound card supports this option. If not, try TotalRecorder.

If you're desperate, use a piece of male-male 3.5mm mini-headphone wire and plug the MIC jack to the LINE OUT jack on your soundcard...but it'll probably make everything sound bad.

 

[Prodigy^]

sweet, that Total Recorder program worked like a charm. thanks !

 

[HepDude]

I don't see Total Recorder mentioned in the thread, so you must have gotten a message from someone.

And that was what I was going to suggest. It can record any digital audio in your PC.

Total Recorder is available from High Criteria and I like that it only costs $11.95 to register. I hate when one-function shareware programs cost as much as all of Windows! (cf Paint Shop Pro). t is refreshing when shareware is priced appropriately for its use.

 

[Prodigy^]

well I just did a search (lamga mentioned it) on hotbot and found it. as for registering....well, nothing ole astalavista can't take care of