Ripping DVD audio to Stereo WAV

[Reijin]

Hi everyone, I'm new to ripping and this forum...maybe I missed it in one of the guides, but this is what I want to do. I have a DVD here - Incubus - The Morning View Sessions. I want to rip the audio from this DVD to high quality stereo WAV files. I'm not sure if this can be done, but can anyone perhaps point me to a guide or just give any pointers on where to start? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Reijin

[Reijin]

Let me provide a little more information...I'm running Windows XP (all updates except SP1) and I have a Pioneer 116 Tray loading DVD ROM drive. Don't know if that helps any, but maybe it will. Also, be warned, I don't even know how to locate anything on a DVD such as where the audio would be stored, so once again any help would be greatly appreciated. See ya later.

Reijin

[SirElvis]

First use some DVD ripping program to get the audio AC3 track(s). You can use DVDDecrypter (http://www.DVDDecrypter.com) or SmartRipper. For SmartRipper, there is a short guide(http://doom9.org/index.html?/sr.htm), but personally I perfer DVDDecrypter. In DVDDecrypter you select "Enable Stream Processing", only select the audio track to be processed and set "Demux". For SmartRipper, I don't know.

After you got the AC3 file(s) use Besweet (http://dspguru.doom9.org) to convert it to WAV. The commandline would be somthing like:

besweet -core( -input "audio.ac3" -output "audio.wav" -2ch )

[DIggedy]

Being that it's a music dvd before you go ripping the ac3 track it's worth checking if it has a 2ch PCM track first.... this is basically just the same as an uncompressed wav file so the quality would be superior if you have access to such a track and wouldn't require downmixing to 2ch.