Audio out cable from DVD drive required to rip dvd?

[mparkes]

Newbie question: Is the audio out cable from the DVD drive required to rip a dvd? If its not connected will I just be able to rip the video portion?
Thanks
Mike

[resnullius]

when you rip the dvd it's done completly digitally so basically you are copying the files from the dvd. Therefore, no, the audio cable is not necessary to rip.
Hope that helps

[mparkes]

Thanks resnullius
Thats what I thought but I wasn't completely sure. I started wondering about this after I had ripped a DVD and then opened the VOB with DVD2AVI - there is a "preview" movie in DVD2AVI and when it started playing there was no sound - but maybe this function only previews the video and doesn't include the audio?

[Dragonsf]

I think you should demux the vob file (separate video and audio streams) before further processing (bbtools work for me)

[resnullius]

play your vobs with your software dvd player... you should find they r fine

[poopyhead]

there is a "preview" movie in DVD2AVI and when it started playing there was no sound - but maybe this function only previews the video and doesn't include the audio?

yep, you are exactly right; audio doesn't play.

dvd2avi allows u to extract the audio from the vobs so you can plug it into tmpgenc for encoding...just make sure you choose the right track (sometimes a track is not DD so it cannot be decoded by dvd2avi, in this case just choose another track and preview it to make sure it's DD so you can decode it)