extract 30 sec music from dvd

[humbleboy]

I am trying to extract small part of music from a dvd movie but there is speech at the same time. can i extract only music to wav or mp3 ?
Thank you

[mats.hogberg]

Most likely not, if the speech and music isn't on separate audio tracks. There's a utility called Vocal remover that supposedly removes lyrics from music, leaving the instrumental part alone, but I've never tried it myself. Might work to remove speech from background music too.

/Mats

[Forum Troll]

If the audio is encoded as 5-channel, and the music and dialog are on separate channels, you might be able to, but more than likely they are mixed into the same channel, and you can't separate them.

[mats.hogberg]

Actually, I tried the vocal remover out of curiosity, and, depending on how the vocals is located over the channels, it works surprisingly well! I can see a new Karaoke business opportunity

/Mats

[humbleboy]

ok guys i was able so far to extract audio from dvd but still can not seperate the tracks as i could not find any tool yet. I tried vocal remover but it does not seperate completely. I need a way to have the music only, any tool free or not i will get it.
Many thanks

[mats.hogberg]

Completely or not depends on source material. I've noticed from "almost 100%" on some, to "not at all" for others.
I'm afraid that's how well it can be done, no matter how much you spend on the task. Only option as I see it, is to get the raw unmixed audio recordings from the producers...

/Mats