Comments on: DVD to CD

Question: DVD to CD

sandra194 — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:38:31 -0800

I have a concert on DVD and I would like to have the music from the DVD on a CD. Is there a way to transfer music from a DVD to a CD?

By: killyb

killyb — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:46:43 -0800

I would play the DVD(in a stand alone player), with an audio cable going from the DVD player to the input of the computer. Use a piece of software called audacity to record the audio, once recorded edit, break up into tracks, then burn to CD.

By: joeblough

joeblough — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:54:10 -0800

yes it is possible, though the only way i know how to do it requires knowledge of linux and a bunch of open-source tools...

mplayer -dumpaudio to get the audio from the DVD
then sox to convert the audio to wav or AIFF

By: caddis

caddis — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:55:34 -0800

Audio-Only DVD Ripping Guide

By: tumble

tumble — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:56:51 -0800

I use Im Too Ripper, it's pretty simple.

By: ed\26h

ed\26h — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:57:24 -0800

This might help.

By: adipocere

adipocere — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:58:22 -0800

I recently did this. First off, you'll need a copy of DVD Decrypter, which is now "illegal." You can still find it.

Allow DVD Decrypter to select the main title (where the bulk of the stuff you want to hear is, rather than menus) in .IFO mode. Enable stream processing. Click over to the right-hand tab and uncheck everything but the 2-channel AC3 English (probably) stream. Click on that stream and select the radio button below it for "demux."

The end result will be a AC3 file sitting on your machine. You can even select by CellID to break it up into several small files on extraction, if you wish.

Next, dig up a little tool called ACTool. It still bears some traces of its native French, but you can suss it out. You'll have to convert from AC3 to WAV. This program is basically a GUI laid on top of other command line programs.

I recently used this to break up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas into convenient MP3s. I'm a little weird.

I'm doing this off of the top of my head, so I might be off on the instructions, but I puzzled it out myself, so you should be able to, as well.

By: metaname

metaname — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:00:01 -0800

To maintain the best audio quality you can directly rip the audio from the DVD with your computer.

Here's a guide I found by googling "rip audio dvd":
Audio-Only DVD Ripping Guide
(on preview caddis found it first)

A good general resource for this sort of thing is doom9.org.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:34:46 -0800

The method adipocere described is how I'd do it myself if I desired to do such a thing.

By: baylink

baylink — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:03:30 -0800

You could also apply VirtualDub to the output of DVD Decrypter, which, if you can't find it...

By: adamkempa

adamkempa — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:18:45 -0800

I wanted to do this with audio commentaries so I wrote a program to do this for OSX side of things. It's here (free).