DVD to WAV or similar audio format

[mattturner]

hiya. ok, i'm kinda new to this. i would like to extract the sound from a dvd (muse-hullaballoo if ya wanna know) so i can then burn it onto a cd and play it in my standard cd player. just point me in the right direction. Much apreciated
Matt

[BJ_M]

smart ripper -> ac3 (use stream function and save all to 1 stream) , make sure you pick the right lang.) -> besweet convert to wav -> wav burn to audio cd ...

problem .. the audio maybe longer than 1 cd .. use a audio editor and divide the wav up ...

[KingJohn]

hiya. ok, i'm kinda new to this. i would like to extract the sound from a dvd (muse-hullaballoo if ya wanna know) so i can then burn it onto a cd and play it in my standard cd player. just point me in the right direction. Much apreciated
Matt

1, insert DVD and select audio you want, press play

2, Click record in your sound cards recorder program

Or use www.goldwave.com to record.

"No conversion, no messing about) just save as WAV

One large WAV, No problem use Nero to burn and select where to split.

[BJ_M]

he can do it the way king john says but the quality will suffer -- that audio will have gone through a digital to analog conversion plus be dependent on the quality of the sound card -- and most sound card audio specifications rather suck and the fact that the 5:1 to 2 channel conversion done is often done incorrectly in a pc.
.. i sugested a method to preserve the quality of the audio ...

but either method will work .

[KingJohn]

he can do it the way king john says but the quality will suffer -- that audio will have gone through a digital to analog conversion plus be dependent on the quality of the sound card -- and most sound card audio specifications rather suck and the fact that the 5:1 to 2 channel conversion done is often done incorrectly in a pc.
.. i sugested a method to preserve the quality of the audio ...

but either method will work .

Preserve it for a Music CD @ 44.1Khz output ?

You wont even notice the difference from the original DVD, your not recording via a microphone you know !

[BJ_M]

well i can certainly hear the differance - unless its one of the over proccessed already pop tracks prevalent today , then it would not mater much if you record it with a "my first tape deck" from sony

[KingJohn]

Dolby Digital was developed to allow the use of lower data rates with a minimum of perceived degration of sound quality. This takes the maximum advantage of human auditory masking in that it divides the audio spectrum of each channel into narrow frequency bands of different sizes, optimized with respect to the frequency selectivity of human hearing.

Great, however convert that to 44.1Khz 16 bit stereo, and you no loner have the same frequency response provided before, you wont be able to tell the difference between a digitally converted signal and a analog recorded signal at 44.1Khz. If recorded to a DAT tape deck via digital recording, then you get closer !

If you can tell the difference you must be a dog whose frequency selectivity hearing is much higher. However if the DVD is today's pop music, then recorded from a tin can would make it sound more like the original

[BJ_M]

nope not a dog i'm aware of but my job involves mastering tracks and encoding them for both theatre and dvd .. point is, its not the fact of the perceived (somewhat hype) masking effects of dolby digital vs. cd audio but the fact of the great amount of sound degradation from the poor DA convertors found in the avg home pc. also i have found a great amount of phase shift in the same cards when testing due to poor multichannel latency. fact is (also), its quicker to just rip the ac3 file than to record it in real time. as i said your method is fine and works -- no question of it .. and we seem to both agree on a lot of modern tracks -- its so over proccessed anyway no mater how you record it will not make a whole lot of change.