Getting Audio off DVD onto CD

[Aussie_Faith]

Hi Everyone!

My daughter has a DVD of Elmo- it hasnt been released on CD.

Is there a way to put the songs off the DVD onto an Audio CD?

No please bear with me.... Im not hugely computer smart... but can generally follow instructions..

So I guess if you talk to me like im thick and a little slow (LOL) and we should be okay!!!

Thanks in advance
Faith

[Ghitulescu]

Yes and no.
No, because an AudioCD uses 44.1kHz while most DVD sources have 48kHz (some have 96 too), usually in a compressed form. Also a DVD is generally longer than 80 min.
Yes, if your player can do bitstream, you can create a so-called DTS- or Dolby-CD and let your AVR decode. Alternatively, you can decode yourself the audio to WAV, resample it to 44.1, cut the extra bits (to fit max. 80 minutes) and voilà.

[manolito]

There is a very nice tool which does exactly what you need:

Get DVD Audio Extractor from http://www.dvdae.com/

They have a 30 day trial version. This software extracts any audio from DVDs, splits the audio into individual tracks by chapters, converts any format to 44.1 KHz sample rate, even creates a cue sheet so you can directly burn the extracted audio to a CD.

The quality of the conversions is excellent (does not use ffmpeg), and the software is very easy to use...


Cheers
manolito

[ggtop]

I used DVDDecrypter and an audio encoder of my choice to do that. Simply load the DVD into DVDD and let it demux to wav or ac3 or whatever the audio is. You have to enable stream processing in IFO mode and enable split by cells in the options for IFO mode also. The target format for creating audio cd's is, as ghitulesco wrote, PCM WAV 44.1 kHz 16 bit. So you just have to set this in your encoder.

BTW DVDAE may be easier...

ggtop

[Aussie_Faith]

Thank you... Have downloaded it... just trying to figure HOW to use it! LOL

trying to figure if I can just get the songs without the talking.... Eg from 3:10- 6:00

[CWR03]

trying to figure if I can just get the songs without the talking
You might be able to separate out the center channel if the audio is 5.1, but if it's just 2-channel stereo you can't.

[Ghitulescu]

You might be able to separate out the center channel if the audio is 5.1, but if it's just 2-channel stereo you can't.

There are however algorithms and software to "delete" the vocals, you know, for karaoke purposes. Not optimal, but for most people quite ok.
I never used one of them, but I've got a "devocalised" song once, I was not impressed.

[kypec]

@CWR03 & Ghitulescu: with all due respect to your number of posts here I think you are just thinking too hard and over complicating what Aussie_Faith wants to achieve -> no sound processing at all, just simple time-based cuts of original audio stream.
He (she?) even wrote the example: from 3:10 - 6:00. Being this a kids show I assume it's just a lots of spoken language interleaved with songs and OP just wants to extract those song parts without blablabla in between.

[Ghitulescu]

Weel, in that case, any audio processor, like the freeware audacity, can do it.

[manono]

Weel, in that case, any audio processor, like the freeware audacity, can do it.
Sure, and if, as is usually the case, the songs are in their own chapter, Aussie_Faith can set up DVD Decrypter to only decrypt the chapter(s) containing the song(s), at the same time using stream processing to demux the audio. Or, with the VOBs on the Hard drive, he can open a VOB in DGIndex, use the [ and ] buttons to isolate a song and when saving the project file he'll also get the DVD audio (probably AC3 audio). He can even have that audio decoded to WAV audio at the same time by fooling around in the audio section of DGIndex.

[manolito]

Thank you... Have downloaded it... just trying to figure HOW to use it! LOL

trying to figure if I can just get the songs without the talking.... Eg from 3:10- 6:00

C'm on, DVDAE comes with a comprehensive help file, it doesn't get any easier than this.

To find out which chapters you want on your final audio CD, just click the Play button. You can skip from chapter to chapter, so you can easily determine which chapters you want. After stopping playback just unselect the chapters you do not want.

As your encoding format select 'CD Image and Cuesheet', in the next step you specify the destination folder and maybe you want to normalize the audio.

When everything is finished you will end up with one large WAV file and one small CUE file which contains the starting points for each track.

To burn this to a CD you need a burning software which supports burning of CD images (Nero, IMGBurn and many others). Remember you have to specify the CUE file as your source (not the WAV file).


Cheers
manolito

[Aussie_Faith]

@CWR03 & Ghitulescu: with all due respect to your number of posts here I think you are just thinking too hard and over complicating what Aussie_Faith wants to achieve -> no sound processing at all, just simple time-based cuts of original audio stream.
He (she?) even wrote the example: from 3:10 - 6:00. Being this a kids show I assume it's just a lots of spoken language interleaved with songs and OP just wants to extract those song parts without blablabla in between.

YES!!!! This is exactly what I am try ing to achieve (and She by the way)

The problem I am having, is the songs seem to over lap the chapers when it is split up.... Song for eg.... the song "lets go outdoors" starts in chapter one.... but finishes 1/2 way through chapter 2.

[Aussie_Faith]

C'm on, DVDAE comes with a comprehensive help file, it doesn't get any easier than this.

To find out which chapters you want on your final audio CD, just click the Play button. You can skip from chapter to chapter, so you can easily determine which chapters you want. After stopping playback just unselect the chapters you do not want.

As your encoding format select 'CD Image and Cuesheet', in the next step you specify the destination folder and maybe you want to normalize the audio.

When everything is finished you will end up with one large WAV file and one small CUE file which contains the starting points for each track.

To burn this to a CD you need a burning software which supports burning of CD images (Nero, IMGBurn and many others). Remember you have to specify the CUE file as your source (not the WAV file).


Cheers
manolito

I did say I wasnt all that computer savvy... and I just dont understand all the jargin... Sorry. I do appreciate you all trying to help though

[manolito]

YES!!!! This is exactly what I am try ing to achieve (and She by the way)

The problem I am having, is the songs seem to over lap the chapers when it is split up.... Song for eg.... the song "lets go outdoors" starts in chapter one.... but finishes 1/2 way through chapter 2.

Unfortunately this makes your goal a lot harder to achieve. You need to learn how to work with a wave editor. There are a couple of free wave editors available (e.g. Audacity), but they all do have a learning curve...


Cheers
manolito

[Aussie_Faith]

Im ready to find a quiet room and hold a darn recorning device up to it!

*shakes fist in the air*

Darn you "the best of Elmo 2"you will NOT beat me!

[Ghitulescu]

You always have at least two alternatives

the one is to do-it-yourself
the other one is to pay somebody to do it for you
the third is to buy the soundtrack on the CD if available