extracting audio from a music video

[trunksu]

I have a music video dvd and i would like to extract each chapter to an mp3 so i can burn it on a cd. i tried using dvd audio extractor but the quality is mediocre. i would like the quality to be as good as the dvd or close to it. thanks

[guns1inger]

In what way mediocre ?
What settings did you use ?
Is MP3 ever better than mediocre ?

[anubis13]

you could rip the DVD to your Hard drive, demux the AC3 audio from the Vob's convert the
AC3 to 48000 Wav, pop it into your favorite audio editor, ( I like Sound Forge) convert it to 44100 sample rate. look on the DVD where each song ends and begins time wise and cut separate audio tracks for each song. save those songs as separate files and burn them as an audio CD with no pauses between tracks (CD Architect works good for that).

[nic2k4]

Use Besweet and LAME. You'll have to enable SSRC to convert the bitrate from 48kHz to 44.1, 48kHz MP3 sound odd. Enable BOOST to reduce the dynamic range, use the auto mode with DG compression. If you don't reduce the compression you'll find the volume seems too low, even if you normalize. You could use MP3Gain after, but it does the same thing as BOOST. Besweet can normalize in most of it's components, but I prefer to do it early on, so I enable it in AZIZ. Another way is to use DVD2AVI to extract a WAV file, open it in your favorite WAV editor (Audacity is good and free, I also use Nero's). Change the bitrate to 44.1kHz, change the dynamic range and normalize. Save the new WAV and compress using your favorite program (Besweet or EAC & LAME). Why use DVD2AVI; it's great for slicing out only the segments you want while preserving maximum quality.

[anubis13]

If your destination is a CD-R you do not need to even use MP3