DVD Commentary to MP3. Painlessly? On a Mac?

adamkempa — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:32:37 -0800

I'd like to transcode the commentary tracks of some DVD's for iPod listening, preferably on a mac. I think I have it narrowed down to some obscure VLC commands. I've been passively working on this for the past few weeks. The closest I've come is this tutorial which was recently posted to lifehacker. This tutorial is perfect, except it only works for the primary audio channel. Some googling revealed command line options --audio-language, --audio-track and --audio-channel, but none of them appear to be working.

--audio-language seems to be the obvious one to go with. It accepts a string as the parameter. I've tried every Possible permutation of the name apple's DVD player reports for the commentary track ('Audio English 2'), without any luck.

So, I'm asking for either the correct way to do this using VLC, or any other (possibly better?) method.

I apologize if this has already been addressed (It seems like it should have been). I searched using both available methods.

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DVD Commentary to MP3. Painlessly? On a Mac?