trying to get audio off of a dvd...

[jimbo913]

...first off sorry for the double post (I also posted in newbie, I should have asked here first)

I have a james taylor dvd that I want to isolate the audio from so that I can burn it on a cd.

I followed the directions on the FAQ which says:
"How can I convert the DVD audio to an audio CD or a wav file?
First you need to RIP the movie to the HD which require between 4-8 GB of freespace, read step 1a-1c in sefys dvdrip guide here how to that. Then you follow step 2a-2c but be sure to select under Audio->48khz -> 44 khz to High in DVD2AVI before you enter step 2b. And after that you will have a .wav file for the entire dvd movie, for example in sefys dvdtovcd see step 3: History of the world AC3 T01 44khz.wav. Last you can burn the WAV file with any audio burning tool and you have an Audio CD of the DVD but you probably need to cut it fit on a Audio CD, therefore use any audio tool like Cool Edit."

The instructions about extracting DVD is on http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdtovcd.htm#1

Well I tried this several times and wound up with a video that looked good (using preview in DVD2AVI) but the audio had a ton of static (so much that the music was not audable, only heard static). So in essence, I was unsuccessful. I really want to isolate this music. Can someone please, please help me out.

Please respond to me via email at jimbo913@msn.com

Thanks in advance,

James Dallaire

[VCD Addict]

Sounds like the Track settings on the DVD2AVI program is not correct. Be sure that on the Track settings, the track is set to 1.

[jimbo913]

Yeah, it is set to track 1. I have tried doing it with several different tracks, but I always get the same thing. It's very frustrating.

[VCD Addict]

Hmmm. I wonder why. A couple of weeks ago, I was able to convert my DVD copy of James Taylor 'Live At The Beacon Theatre' concert to VCD without any problems using DVD2AVI. Before converting it to MPEG, I listened to the created WAV file and indeed it was the audio component of the DVD. Try setting the Audio->48khz->44 khz to either Low or Medium and see what happens.

[jimbo913]

Yeah tried that too. Wish I could get it to work. Argh, I gotta have this on cd. Live at the Beacon is such a great DVD.

[jimbo913]

I also tried using vob2audio and I got a message saying it was missing a stream. So I can't get it to work that way either.

[jimbo913]

I removed vob2audio since when I had it installed I could not get my dvd player to work so back to DVD2AVI.

When using Smart Ripper, should I have "enable stream processing" checked? If so what options should be selected (Direct Stream Copy? extract to new vob?)

What options should I choose in the settings (for key, file split, etc)?

When I go to "files" on the left side of the program, should they all be selected?

I keep trying, using different combinations of options, but none seem to work.

I hope I am not getting on anyone's nerves but I can't seem to get this to work.

To be honest I am not sure if my problem lies with smart ripper or dvd2avi, since it didn't work using vob2audio, I assume my problem is with smart ripper but I am not sure.

Please help, and thanks for reading this

[jimbo913]

just in case anyone cares, I finally was able to isolate using flask.60.

I tried graphedit (to darned complicated), vob2audio, and dvd2avi and none worked.

Now I have one big wave file, does anyone know of a freeware program to split the files up? I tried wav split but it didn't work.

[mijman]

To split huge wavs, I use TotalRecorder. It's the BEST, but I edit it later with Goldwave. (Goldwave is far too memory intensive for wavs that size.) The downside is that they aren't freeware. Goldwave is $30 I think and Totalrecorder is $12.
I liked Total recorder so much, I actually PAID to register it! (as opposed to OTHER ways of registering things)