Extracting just the audio from DVD to WAV files

[judgmentday]

Hi guys,

I have a couple of concerts in DVD and I'd like to burn their audio into a CD so I could listen in my car.

Can you please give me a step by step guide or guide me to one?


Thank you.

[bunyip]

Get yourself a copy of ...
1. SmartRipper
2. BeSweet 1.4
3. BeSweetGUI.

Step 1. Use SmartRipper to extract the audio from the DVD.
- In the input tab select the 'Program Chain' that contains the audio you want.
- Click on the 'Stream Processing' tab and tick the 'Enable Stream Processing' option.
- De-select everything except the audio stream (probably AC3).
- Press the 'Start' button and the Audio stream will be saved to disk.

Step 2. Use Besweet to convert the audio to WAV or MP3.
- Start BeSweetGUI and select the extracted audio file as input and name an output file.
- Assuming you want to make a standard Audio CD - select 'Wave-Stereo' as the output type.
- Press the 'AC3 to WAV' button and the WAV file will be created.

Step 3. Use your CD burning program to create an Audio CD from the 'WAV' files.

(There are options in BeSweet if you want re-sample or boost - you can experiment with these)

It's really very simple when you have the right tools.

[judgmentday]

Thanks a lot bunyip,

The DVD concert has DTS and PCM Stereo.

I'll try this tonight. I have those tools already, I did not know how to play with them, but I'll follow your step by step guide.

Thanks again

I'll let you know the results.

[Supreme2k]

I would go with steps 1 and 3, but for step 2, use headACh3. It may be a little easier. It seems a little faster and more accurate (to me).[/url]

[jfebus]

Hi All,

After getting the .vobs to my harddrive, I use DVD2AVI to extract the audio and create the .WAV files.

Regards,

[judgmentday]

Get yourself a copy of ...
1. SmartRipper
2. BeSweet 1.4
3. BeSweetGUI.

It did not work.

When pressing the Start bottom I get a 92kb file. Nothing else.

[judgmentday]

I would go with steps 1 and 3, but for step 2, use headACh3. It may be a little easier. It seems a little faster and more accurate (to me).

Supreme2k,

The zip file has an error on a text file and does not extract.

I tried the one on doom9 but has the same error.

It is not that easy as I thought.

I can get a wav file from each VOB file using VirtualDubMPEG2 but the songs are cut because one part resides in on VOB file and the other part of the song resides in another VOB. I used Filmerger to merge the 7 VOB files and this way get a big 6.5GB VOB file and extract the audio in one big wav file but is not possible.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Use DVDDecrypter to rip
www.dvddecrypter.com

[judgmentday]

I have used Smartriper to rip the movie to hard drive but smartriper asked me to use a player to open the files in order to rip, I used decrypter and when I tried again with Smartriper then the files can be read. However, the movie in the hard drive for some reason gets ripped without audio. I thought that my sound card drivers were corrupted but that's not the case because it works with other movies already in the hard drive.

I have used Decrypter and get the same results. What do you guys think is the problem?

I have Decrypted the movie and ripped with the VOBs to be merged this way I can get just one big vob to get one wav file insteat of multiple wav files that have the songs cut.

[Supreme2k]

You are diong way too much work. You really only need to do a stream rip.

Load up the DVD in DVDDecrypter, Chose the movie that you want to rip, and click on the Stream Processing tab:


Then uncheck all but the main audio file. Choose "demux to new file"



After that, simply use step 2 above to convert it to wav.

You NEVER have to rip the full VOBs in order to get just the audio or just the video stream.[/img]

[judgmentday]

Thanks a lot Supreme2k,

I'll try it tonight.

[judgmentday]

Hi guys,

Thanks to all for helping me, finally I ripped the stream of audio that I wanted it.

Here is my little guide:

http://www.geocities.com/judgmentday1/dvdwav.html

[mpb]

Hi folks!

First of all, thanks to everybody who posted before with info. Especially props to Supreme2k because using DVD Decrypter, which I had not thought to do, is saving me an incredible amount of hassle.

Feedback from doing this with recent DVDs...

Methods:
DVD-Decrypter, stream demux rip as noted by S2K above.
Headac3he to downmix to WAV @44.1k.
Audacity to edit wave (to cut the tracks properly) and convert to MP3 (uses the LAME plug-in).
Conversions made at 320k, 192k, and 128k for comparison.

Played back on home theater DVD player w/mp3 (APEX 1500), truck mp3 player (Aiwa), PC with Windows Media Player and WinAmp.

Results:

Alanis Morissette "Feast on Scraps" DVD (5.1 full mix)

- Separation of instruments is full and complete. Downmix from AC3 plays correctly on Pro-Logic mode on home theater! Everything goes to its place. Not as good as a true AC3 mix playback but obviously not stereo - very clearly multichannel.
- DVD has some songs in full and some just clips. Captured and converted all fully-present live performances. Tracks: Baba, Right Through You, Unprodigal Daughter, Flinch, All I Really Want, Sympathetic Character, So Unsexy, You Oughta Know, Uninvited, You Learn, Thank You.
- No low-end washout and no high-end clipping. Downside: volume levels a bit low compared to music CDs; won't mix well with CD-sourced music in a mix disc or a playlist.
- Actual clarity: just breathtaking. You have to hear this to understand. I don't think most genuine "live" albums sound close to as clean as this does. Even on a stereo (non-surround) device (the truck mp3 player) the sound quality is remarkable.
- 128k mp3 suffers from slight swishing, likely a natural artifact of the source WAV having such crisp high end. 192k mp3 is not audibly flawed. 320k is indistinguishable from source WAV.

Dream Theater "Live Scenes From New York" DVD (2-channel mix)

- DT already released this on a separate CD so this was my chance to get a great A/B comparison of this method to "pro" conversion. Since it was really just a test, I only fully converted and mixed five songs: Regression, Overture 1928, Strange Deja Vu, The Spirit Carries On, Learning to Live.
- Clearly a two-channel mix. Signal levels lower than pro CD version. Sound quality is effectively identical - no greater or less instrument separation or clarity.
- 128k mp3 even sounds fine for this one. Soundboard mix may not have been much on the high end. Other than the sound level discrepancy, this rip is fairly... "useful". However since a pro CD already exists, sounds the same, and contains more tracks, there's not much point in doing it.

Dokken "One Live Night (Acoustic)" DVD (2-channel mix)

- Also exists as a CD, but DVD purports to be "from the original premix". No difference detected in instrument separation. Definitely not surround.
- Tracks captured: The Maze, Alone Again, In My Dreams, Nowhere Man, It's Not Love. Nothing significantly different than on the pro CD.
- Signal levels only barely lower. Sound quality isn't all that amazing at any bitrate, the mix is a touch muddy and the DVD doesn't improve at all on the CD in that regard. The performance is strong, so if you dig Dokken, you will want to hear this one, but don't go out of your way to get the DVD... the CD will serve you just fine, and you won't have to stare at Don's hairpiece while the songs play.

Megadeth "Rude Awakening" DVD (5.1 full mix)

- This exists as a CD with a stereo mix and a DVD with a full 5.1 AC3 mix. A chance to see if ripping the DVD improves on the CD.
- Tracks converted: Dread and the Fugitive Mind, Kill the King, Wake Up Dead, In My Darkest Hour, Angry Again, She Wolf, Reckoning Day, Devil's Island, Train of Consequences, A Tout le Monde, Burning Bridges, Hangar 18, Return to Hangar, Hook in Mouth, Almost Honest, 1000 Times Goodbye, Mechanix, Tornado of Souls, Ashes in Your Mouth, Sweating Bullets, Trust, Symphony of Destruction, Peace Sells, Holy Wars
- Separation of instruments is not only obvious, but is also far more distinct than on the pro CD release!! This would be a great candidate for DVD-Audio, but for the time being the pro-logic-friendly WAV downmix from Headac3he is superior to the pro CD.
- Clarity is also very clean. Not quite as much as Alanis - less musicians and a rougher mix are the culprits for this material not sounding quite as crisp and bright as her tunes did.
- Signal levels are lower than the pro CD. Also, high end crispness is not quite as much as for Alanis, but enough to induce some "swishing" at 128k. 192k and upward mp3s sound great.

Good luck to all of you in your audio conversion projects, and I hope you find this report useful. Take care!!

[judgmentday]

Hi mpb,

Where did you get Headac3he. I downloaded it but when I try to unzip it says that there is a CRC error on a readme text file and it doesn't unzip.
I use winzip and powerarchiver to unzip but no luck.

[mpb]

Hi mpb,

Where did you get Headac3he. I downloaded it but when I try to unzip it says that there is a CRC error on a readme text file and it doesn't unzip.
I use winzip and powerarchiver to unzip but no luck.

Got it from the link at the left of this page under "tools"... had to get winRAR to decompress it.

[judgmentday]

Thanks mpb,

I got it now, but it doesn't get the input file. I even put the lame_mode.dll in the folder, but some how can't pull any files. The files do not show in the window.

[MarcD]

One other thing I find helpful is ChapterXtractor. Most concert discs have a chapter at each song, so run ChapterExtractor, save the times in a text file, and it puts you in close proximity when using Audacity or Soundforge or what have you to cut the tracks.

For some discs I have found it to be right on, just depends on the amount of care that went into authoring the original I guess.

Marc

Edit: note that you will need the IFOs for C-X to run properly.

[daesdaemar]

For whatever the information might be worth, I tried the techniques listed here and could not get decent audio out of "The Eagles: Hell Freezes Over". Finally, I tried VOBEdit on the DVDDecrypter ripped files and it worked very nicely. I am now playing with the audio on Audacity and Sound Forge.

[deadliner]

I don't quite understand this entire process, I used DVD Decryptor as listed above, and I end up with a .vob file.

I'm kinda new to this so don't laugh, but the .vob file isnt accepted by headac3he. Also,...my screens from DVD Decryptor look kinda differnt, the options available are different. The version I have is 3.1.6.0.

As far as I can see there is no option in this version to select "demux to new file" or "include in vob",...like in the above photo. How do I get DVD Decryptor to output the file in ac3??

Also, the DVD I want to extract the audio from is in Dolby Digital 5.1, and I want to be able to play it on both my car stereo (4 speaker), and my home theater (5.1 Digital/DTS/Pro Logic) with the best sounding results.
Should I just click on '4 channel' in the headach3e options and use those defaults? Will that make it Pro Logic II compatible?

Thanx for any and all help,...
deadliner

[mats.hogberg]

I go with jfebus - Rip in chapter mode, which for most DVDs will give you one VOB / song, then DVD2AVI to get the audio track in wav format. Pretty simple and straight forward.

/Mats

[deadliner]

Just an update to my post,

By default everything is checked, and if I just uncheck the others and keep the audio, it outputs a .vob file.

But if I deselect everything, then reselect the audio only,...then it give me the .ac3 file. Weird,...


deadliner