DVD to CD

August 1, 2006 11:38 AM

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?
posted by sandra194 to Media & Arts (10 answers total)

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.
posted by killyb at 11:46 AM on August 1, 2006

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
posted by joeblough at 11:54 AM on August 1, 2006

Audio-Only DVD Ripping Guide
posted by caddis at 11:55 AM on August 1, 2006

I use Im Too Ripper, it's pretty simple.
posted by tumble at 11:56 AM on August 1, 2006

This might help.
posted by ed\26h at 11:57 AM on August 1, 2006

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.
posted by adipocere at 11:58 AM on August 1, 2006

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.
posted by metaname at 12:00 PM on August 1, 2006

The method adipocere described is how I'd do it myself if I desired to do such a thing.
posted by neckro23 at 12:34 PM on August 1, 2006

You could also apply VirtualDub to the output of DVD Decrypter, which, if you can't find it...
posted by baylink at 2:03 PM on August 1, 2006

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).
posted by adamkempa at 2:18 PM on August 1, 2006 [1 favorite]