DVD sound capture

[PardeGT]

Is there a way to capture the sound from a dvd movie and burn it to a cd?

My fiancee wants to take just the sound track of a dvd movie we have here and listen to it at work on her walkman.

Thanks.

[Xayd]

Go download DVD Decrypter from http://www.doom9.org

Open it up, go to mode, IFO. Select your DVD drive as the source.

There should be a tab that says "stream processing". Click on it, highlight the audio track. Then check off "enable stream processing", and select "demux".

Then click on the DVD > HD button and it'll rip out the audio track you selected (along with all of the files on the DVD itself probably, which you can delete).

What you have then is the whole movie sound stream in AC3 format, which you can convert to MP3 or WAV or whatever via HeadAC3he, also downloadable at doom9.

Both apps are freeware.

[PardeGT]

Thanks for that Xayd - I was at a friend's and he had a program called Total Recorder. It recorded the sound from the movie off the sound card.

Only one problem. After I recorded it, I converted the audio from 44.8kHz 16-bit to 32kHz 16-bit to get the file under 700mb. However, the length of the track is 91.5 mins (length of movie). Is there a way to get this on one cd in wav format (as will be played on a walkman) due to its length even though the file size is small enough?

Thanks.

[Xayd]

That is a problem .

There's no way that I know of. Your best option would be to cut the credits and cut the opening sequence if possible. If you can get it down under 85 mins you can probably get it to fit via overburning, but otherwise you'll need a 90 min CDR to keep it as an audio CD.

[PardeGT]

Thanks again, Xayd. Yep, I just love Nero's wave editor. I chopped about a min off the beginning and another 6 min off the end. Then, I narrowed it a little more with time compression at 93% and wallah. I didn't have any 90 min cd's so I got it down to 79'15".

I was looking around Doom9 and I see they also list a SmartRipper2.41 for dvd's saying it has many options other's don't. Have you used that as well as DvdDecrypter3.1.6? I thought I'd look around a little. This Total Recorder worked pretty good but the whole movie had to play so it could recorded.

[Xayd]

For DVDs DVDDecrypter and SmartRipper do essentially the same things, I just find DVDDecrypter's interface easier to use. /shrug

Matter of preference I suppose.

Ripping out the audio stream only takes about 10 minutes, converting it to MP3 another 10 minutes or so, so that's why I mentioned it rather than recording, woulda saved you some time .

[PardeGT]

Thanks - I've downloaded them and will check them out.