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Topic: is it possible to rip audio-tracks from a DVD? (Read 4278 times) previous topic - next topic
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is it possible to rip audio-tracks from a DVD?

i wanted to record some tracks from a DVD-concert to my mp3-player, although i have line-in i prefer to encode them in ogg vorbis (my player can only record mp3)

now i found some dvd-audio-ripper programs from mtoo, xilisoft and others and installed all the demos, tried to rip some of the tracks to wav but the output was more than disappointing. it was as if i was listening to a 64kbps mp3 file. the stereo-image and frequency spectrum was totally distorted.

all programs had produced about the same bad quality. does that mean that when ripping audio from a dvd the process is not fully digital but has some digital/analog/digital conversion going on and the quality is depending on the quality of the sound-card?

are there other options to get the audio in a good quality?

thanks for any help!

ol.

is it possible to rip audio-tracks from a DVD?

Reply #1 –
are you talking about a general DVD (i.e. a movie) or a DVD-A?

if the former appllies, then e.g. use DVDDecrypter.
you can then demux the resulting files to obtain the audio part of the video, most of the time in AC3 or DTS.
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is it possible to rip audio-tracks from a DVD?

Reply #2 –
From the one DVD experience I have, dvd-audio-ripper does its job right. Your problem might be that you're encoding directly to mp3, or that the encoder is resampling to 44.1kHz.

Note: dvd-audio-ripper does not rip DVD-A

is it possible to rip audio-tracks from a DVD?

Reply #3 –
yes it is a normal dvd not dvd-a.

now i ran dvddecrypter and have an ac3-file, so which tool would be best to convert it to wav or directly ogg?

i found besweet which seems to be perfect... or are there other tools?

thanks again,

o.

is it possible to rip audio-tracks from a DVD?

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From the one DVD experience I have, dvd-audio-ripper does its job right. Your problem might be that you're encoding directly to mp3, or that the encoder is resampling to 44.1kHz.
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i think the problem was how dvd-audio-ripper treated the ac3-stream. there were no settings for downmix surround, lfe etc...
but now with besweet i could select simple stereo as output and it finally sounds as it should! even with ogg at -q2 there is not much difference to the original dvd-stream, i love ogg vorbis ;-)

is it possible to rip audio-tracks from a DVD?

Reply #5 –
Why not keep it as AC3?  I know foobar plays it, I'm sure there are plugins for other players, too.
 

is it possible to rip audio-tracks from a DVD?

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Why not keep it as AC3?  I know foobar plays it, I'm sure there are plugins for other players, too.
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Yes, there's one for XMPlay and probably others.... But I think he wants to convert it to Vorbis for his portable which I guess won't play ac3.... Anyway, foobar2000 could be a good choice for both playing the ac3's and convert them to whatever needed.
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