how do you rip lossless audio from a BluRay disc?

[djdust]

Hi all

Just got my first ever BluRay internal drive today and I want to be able to rip audio tracks from discs in the same way that I currently can with normal DVDs but am not sure where to start. I use DVD Audio Extractor for DVDs, is there a BluRay equivalent or do I need to do some fiddling?

I've had a look at DVDFab but, from what I can tell, it *converts* audio files to whatever setting you choose, but it doesn't seem to have a WAVE/lossless option (and I want to retain the best quality I can).

Can anyone help?

cheers :)

[hello_hello]

You'll need to have something like DVDFab or AnyDVD decrypting in the background to extract steams directly from the files on the disc.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141829

I generally use MeGUI's HD Streams Extractor.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141829

[fengtao]

For DVDFab, there is "Audio" output in "Blu-ray Ripper", and there are WAV or AUDIOCOPY profiles for your purpose, please try it.

[CWR03]

MakeMKV will do it - just uncheck every stream except the one audio channel you want.

[djdust]

For DVDFab, there is "Audio" output in "Blu-ray Ripper", and there are WAV or AUDIOCOPY profiles for your purpose, please try it.

I can't see these "profiles" anywhere - can you advise where to find them?

[djdust]

MakeMKV will do it - just uncheck every stream except the one audio channel you want.

ok, I'm giving it a try but it won't let me select just an audio stream - it's still outputting an .mkv file...

[Ghitulescu]

ok, I'm giving it a try but it won't let me select just an audio stream - it's still outputting an .mkv file...

In the rare case when you can't figure out from a similar image how to do it, it would be advisable to read the help.
http://www.makemkv.com/images/sshot-s2-web.png

[djdust]

Yep, I can see all that. But, if you try to select just an audio track and untick the main "title" it doesn't rip it, it just comes up with:

"No titles are selected, nothing to do."

The software seems to be designed to rip video no matter what...

[Ghitulescu]

I must misunderstood you then :)

use eac3to to demux the audio only from a playlist (see the example way below http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Eac3to/How_to_Use), but you need a decrypted BD or something like AnyDVD HD for on-the-fly decoding.

[setarip_old]

@CWR03

Hi! MakeMKV will do it - just uncheck every stream except the one audio channel you want.This is incorrect, as MakeMKV (in the .MKV mode you've described) will always include the associated VIDEOstream together with the selected audiostream and output an.MKV containing both.

However, if "djdust" DOES create such an .MKV (containing a videostream and your desired audiostream), he/she can then simply load the .MKV into either tsMuxer or MKCleaver and select the desired stream to extract...

[djdust]

ok.......... I've used MakeMKV and have managed to extract the video clips I needed, then used another program called MKVToolNix to extract the audio from the files. However, it's extracted them as AC3 files and I can't find a way to convert these to WAV files. Any hints on how to do it, or are there any other tools that can extract audio from an MKV *and* convert to WAV at the same time?

[sneaker_ger]

eac3to:
eac3to source.mkv 2:dest.wav
("2" means track number two, change as needed)

[setarip_old]

You can't, as you stated in your initial post,somehow convert the audiostreams to "lossless", because your starting point (the Blu-ray disc) contains .AC3 audio, which is already "lossy".

However, using the procedure that you described (essentially, what I suggested - MKVCleaver is an "offshoot"/GUI of MKNToolnix), you will have extracted an UNALTERED .AC3 audiostream that is bit-for-bit identical to the stream contained on the Blu-ray disc...

[hello_hello]

However, it's extracted them as AC3 files and I can't find a way to convert these to WAV files. Any hints on how to do it, or are there any other tools that can extract audio from an MKV *and* convert to WAV at the same time?

See post #2.
Using the HD Streams Extractor, select "wav" under the "ExtractAs" option. For mixing down to stereo in the process, type "-down2" in the options box next to it.

A list of the various options can be found here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966

I don't know if you need to manually download addition decoders/encoders in order for it to work with all formats. I've had it installed for so long I can't remember, however I'm fairly sure it'll convert AC3 to wave without any problem.
And of course if you use MeGUI for video conversion, you'll already have the HD Streams Extractor under MeGUI's Tools menu. In fact if you don't have MeGUI installed, and you plan on converting video and prefer using GUIs, then installing MeGUI would probably be a good idea. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96032

[djdust]

Thanks for all the help so far folks.. :)


[Color=Blue]You can't, as you stated in your initial post,somehow convert the audiostreams to "lossless", because your starting point (the Blu-ray disc) contains .AC3 audio, which is already "lossy".

Yep, I know that.


See post #2.
Using the HD Streams Extractor, select "wav" under the "ExtractAs" option. For mixing down to stereo in the process, type "-down2" in the options box next to it.

Ok, I'm giving HD Streams Extractor a go. Have placed its files in the same directory as the Eac3To files and fired it up ok. However, when I then use it to navigate to the directory where my extracted MKV files are, it's not finding anything so I'm stuck yet again.

Any ideas?

[hello_hello]

Have you selected the "select file as input" option? I think the "select folder as input" option only works on a complete disc structure.

To be honest I've had no experience using the HD Streams Extractor as a standalone application as I've always used the version which comes along for the ride when you install MeGUI, and it's always just worked.

Which version of Windows are you using? I think it needs at least Microsoft dot net version two.

I seem to have messed up and posted the same link twice in my first post. If you can't get it to work there's another GUI for EAC3to here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=135095. I can't say I've ever used it myself.

[buffalofloyd]

I am gonna make a recommendation for you I think you could benefit from, it's called AudioMuxer. This tool has worked perfectly for extracting HD audio from the new Pink Floyd Immersion sets. I wanted to make flac files of the 5.1, 4.0, and 2.0 hi-rez 24/96 audio files and this tool did the trick perfectly and even cut them into tracks based on chapter information. Have a look here...

http://www.surroundbyus.com/sbu/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=135#refdownload

Keep in mind if the disc is encrypted you will prolly need AnyDVD or whatever you use. I made the disc into an ISO file for backup purposes and worked off of that. Depending on what you really need or want to do this is a much better tool for tools like me who don't like to use command programs like eac3to, which is also an excellent program.

What I was doing previously was using makemkv to rip the tracks I wanted then using eac3to to convert the mkv directly to flac, which is possible.

I used a input like this for ex.... eac3to.exe track01.mkv track01.flac

The conversion process will disregard the associated video and you will end up with a flac file, or a wav, or whatever you want it to.

I really recommend you use AudioMuxer though.

[buffalofloyd]

Has anyone tried my above recommendation for AudioMuxer?

[JonesLee]

To rip Blu-ray audio, I recommend trying Pavtube ByteCopy ( http://dvd0101.com ). It performs well in disabling the BD’s copy protection that prevents you from extracting the audio streams. It's not free, sells for $42.

[AMED]

Or you could use Makemkv and rip the lossess audio to flac (inside mkv) and then load it in to foobar2000 and convert to flac again and split of chapters. $0

[S. Pupp]

Has anyone tried my above recommendation for AudioMuxer?

This suggestion from 2011 worked perfectly for me.