Ripping Audio from a DVD

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A few months ago, I played a show and a friend of friend set up a camera, recorded the show and sent us a DVD. The audio came out really well, and I'm trying to figure out a way to rip the audio so I can split the show to individual tracks.

Anyone have a simple process they could recommend?
 
This interests me as well, although I don't really have a need for it at this time. I found this while looking around, might be of some help.

http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/136/59/

I suppose in a pinch you could take the long way around and push the audio out of your DVD player into a DAW. Just a thought, but I'm sure there are much better ways.


HTH,

-JR Miller
 
I use Sony Vegas for editing the family flicks. It has the option to export audio to an MP3. So, you can import your dvd stuff and Save As to an MP3.

I haven't actually tried, but it looks like it will work.

peace.
 
This is tricky, and it depends on whether you have any video editing software.

Tricky part number one is actually being able to get anything off the DVD, let alone audio.

Some applications will recognise and load the video files (usually VOB files), but I've not had luck with any except VirtualDUbMod.exe (which is a free download). This will suck video and audio together off the DVD, and you can save the results as an AVI.

Tricky part number 2: Once saved as an AVI, you can then load into a video application (e.g. Vegas or Ulead Video Studio) and save the audio separately. However, not all applications will allow you to do this.

So the most painless way is to play the DVD on a DVD player, taking its audio into your DAW.
 
You could also try Audio Hijack Pro. It hijacks whichever program, in this case your dvd player application on your computer, and then it will record the sound. This is also a good application if you want to take audio off of Youtube videos and such.
 
Roxio Creator 2009 can be set to record anything playing on your soundcard. Ther eare a few programs that will capture the audio from a DVD and conver them, but when I tried trial versions the sound, when burned to CD, was terrible.
 
What was the file format of the DVD??? Data files with mpegs or standard dvd video (.vob's)???

If its standard .vob files, then those are really just mpeg2 files. You can copy the .vob's off the dvd to your hard drive, rename them to .mpeg

THEN use the free tool SUPER from erightsoft.com to strip the audio to wav or mp3.
SUPER is a darn handy tool to have around for converting any video format to any other or striping out the audio.
 
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the hardest to see. It never ocurred to me to just capture the audio out from the DVD player! I was convinced I had to find a software solution. Several hours spent on Sunday trying tons of ideas from google and all I got was a warbly track in my left ear. 45 mins yesterday and I have great sounding audio! A perfect example of Occam's razor.

Thanks for all the suggetions!
 
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