DVD music video to CD music

[BobMoyer]

My son-in-law received an "Alice in Chains" DVD for his birthday. He asked if it was possible to copy (rip?) the audio only to a CD so he could enjoy it in his car player. Can this be done? I am pretty much a newby when it comes to this type of stuff.

Thanks for any help.

Bob

[vts]

look at any guide under HowTo/DVD RIP section. DVD2AVI will create the .wav file which you can burn to a cd.

[BobMoyer]

Thank you very much.

Bob

[BobMoyer]

I downloaded the above program as suggested by "vts". The text file that comes with it leaves a lot to by desired by a complete idiot such as myself. I am just trying to burn the audio from my son-in-laws DVD(video) disk to a CDR so he can play it in his car. I am confronted with all sorts of files and I have no idea what any of them are in the Video_ts folder (.bup, .ifo, .vob, vts_01_0.bup, etc). Are there some extremely friendly (meaning simple) step by step instructions already posted? I have searched but must not be asking the correct criteria. Most info I have found seems to regard burning to VCD or just ripping to DVDR. Thanks again for any help.

Bob

[SLK001]

Bob,
If you want to wade in this swamp, you had better start studying your "Guide to Swamp Livin'" manuals.

What you are going to have to do, is:
1) Rip whatever track you want.
2) Convert it (.AC3?) to .WAV.
3) Downsample the resulting .WAV to 44.1ksps.
4) Burn to CD-R.

You can use HeadAC3e to convert an .AC3 file to .WAV, and any audio editor should convert the sample rate, then most burning software can create the CD.

If you classify yourself as an idiot (I believe that your words were "a complete idiot such as myself"), then perhaps this is one hobby you should not venture into.

[vts]

use this guide
http://vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/78196.php

you only need SmartRipper and DVD2AVI
Follow that guide:
step 1 - run SmartRipper to copy the DVD to your hard disk
step 2 - run DVD2AVI to create the *.wav

after you get all the tracks you want, just use Nero (or your cd burning s/w) and create the cd.

ps: make sure your pc has a dvd-rom drive

[BobMoyer]

SLK001:

Many thanks for your quick response. You have pretty well convinced me that I don't want to do this! I just thought it would be a simple matter of selecting a file with DVD2AVI and outputting it to a .wav file and then burning the .wav to a CDR. How do I find out what those suffixes that I mentioned above mean? Thanks.

Bob

[BobMoyer]

vts:

Thank you again also. You really do make it sound simple and easy! I'll check out that guide you mentioned. Any help on which one of those suffixes holds the tracks with the music on it or will the 'smartripper' single out all of the files? Thanks.

Bob

BTW: I do have a CD ROM drive in the computer...also a DVD-RW and a CD-RW...lots of toys but I don't know how to use them all yet. At my age, I can absorb only so much tech info at a time!

[greengate69]

I did this for a music DVD once and the problem with the above is I got one big wav file which gives you one long CD track.

In your ripping program (e.g. smartripper), you can set it to split the vob files at every chapter instead of the default 1Gb split. This normally corresponds to 1 file (*.vob) per song.

Next is to extract the audio files from each vob files. I think the easiest way is to load each vob into DVD2AVI with the Audio set to decode and not demux.Set the 48/44.1 option to ultrahigh which will give you the correct CD format. You then use "save provect" which will give you a ".d2v" file you can ignore, and a ".wav" file for each vob.

You can then burn these ".wavs" as individual tracks onto the audio CD, meaning you can jump to tracks, skip tracks etc i.e. like a proper CD. Also has the advantage you can listen to each .wav before you burn it and leave out any you don't like, change the order etc.

There may be a way of using a batch process to do this, but I'm not aware of it.

Hope this helps, good luck !

[SLK001]

Well, Bob, I'm not trying to scare you away. I've actually done this in the past (I didn't use the Smartripper conversion, because, at the time, it took forever!). Find what track you want to keep, and use Smartripper to demux it to a separate file. This file will be about 400MB or so. Use HeadAc3e to convert it to .WAV (it will also downsample the sample rate, but I haven't used that option). Load the resulting file into an audio editor. Here, you can either downsample the whole thing (it will take a while, with time dependent on your machine), or you can cut what you want and save them individually, then downsample each on its own. In the end, you should have "X" number of 16 bit files with 44.1ksps sample rate. Then you can burn the files that you want to keep to a CD.

I downsample last, because in a typical movie, there is a lot of "junk" that you will just discard - ie, a 2 hour movie will give you about a 2 hour audio track. The above is how I did this for The Matrix.

[xxBladExx]

Use TOTAL RECORDER. You don't have to rip the movie and it's very easy to use.

[BobMoyer]

greengate69 and SLK001,

I think I will give it a try. Like I mentioned before, I thought it would be a simple process. The trouble I got myself in was when my son-in-law asked if I could do it for him, I said, "Sure, no problem...it's simple to do". That's what happens when you try to impress someone! Thanks again for the advice and instructions.

Bob

[kitty]

The easy way - plug a mic into your computer & record sound as it plays in the DVD across the room. Take the wav file & burn to CD-R with any number of programs.

Quality will not be great but the simplicity is there.

[villafan]

I use Soundforge to record the audio

Play the DVD in the Computer
Open SF
set record to "what you hear"
record which tracks you need

CD architect addon will allow you to insert
tracks where required
also allow you to overlap tracks so the live recording
seems to be one concert NO GAPS

enjoy
villafan

[BobMoyer]

Many thanks to everyone who posted their helpful suggestions. I followed 'greengate69"'s post and got just what I wanted. The only bad part was that I had to actually listen to the large .wav file -"Alice In Chains" concert in order to edit it so that it would fit on a CDR. Having spent almost 5 years in the Navy, it kinda brought back some memories in that I haven't heard the "F" word used that much in a 60 minute span since I got out! Thanks again to everyone.

Bob