DVD-Audio ripper

[mommyman]

Does someone experience the same problem with these discs? Might be very interesting case...

[Hancoque]

I didn't have any problems ripping The Complex.

[gfxnow]

I was able to rip The Complex with the very first alpha

[mommyman]

And what about Foo Fighters - One by One? It's still under question...

[jolson]

Originally Posted by gfxnow

On a side note i wonder if it is possible to hack/take-out the older SACD-supporting PS3 drive and get it to work with a PC, like what people did with the xbox hddvd drive.

Possibly better to install Linux on the PS3...?

[Chrisssssssss]

One big thanks to all that have worked on this tool. Simply awesome. Kudos to all of you that are much smarter and have more patience than I to code programs.

However, on my Mac, I am having a problem using beta2. It recognizes the .exe file as a text file. I cannot get it to run as an executable in the mac os. I used it in my windows bootcamp partition with no problems and it worked great. All of my DVD-A's are now as wav files on my HD so that I can use my computer as the media source.

If you could repost the beta 2 or maybe try and recompile it, I will test it for functionality on my mac. Like I said, beta 1 works as an executable, beta 2, not so much... Or is it possibly I am doing something incorrectly?

Thanks again and I look forward to trying the ripping process on the mac side (although all of my Current DVD-A's are already done) I would like to still be able to do so on the mac side.

Cheers
Chris

[Wraul]

Originally Posted by Chrisssssssss

One big thanks to all that have worked on this tool. Simply awesome. Kudos to all of you that are much smarter and have more patience than I to code programs.

However, on my Mac, I am having a problem using beta2. It recognizes the .exe file as a text file. I cannot get it to run as an executable in the mac os. I used it in my windows bootcamp partition with no problems and it worked great. All of my DVD-A's are now as wav files on my HD so that I can use my computer as the media source.

If you could repost the beta 2 or maybe try and recompile it, I will test it for functionality on my mac. Like I said, beta 1 works as an executable, beta 2, not so much... Or is it possibly I am doing something incorrectly?

Thanks again and I look forward to trying the ripping process on the mac side (although all of my Current DVD-A's are already done) I would like to still be able to do so on the mac side.

Cheers
Chris

You are not doing anything wrong. The reason the .exe file won't run in OS X is the fact that it's a windows program which OS X don't know how to execute. The same principle that other windows programs wont run in OS X.

You could run beta 1 in OS X because:
1. mommyman provided the source code for the application.
2. mommyman used the Qt framework when developing the program, this makes the program sort of platform independent.
3. I used the source provided by mommyman and compiled it into a OS X application.

Now to the good news. mommyman released the source code for beta 2 too. This made it possible to compile a version for OS X which you can download here OS X Binary (Universal) of Beta 2

Now you can continue to happily rip your DVD-A in OS X.

[Chrisssssssss]

Hey there,

OK, so I got the program to run on the Mac side, however I am getting an "Encrypted Stream" error message when I try and extract the same disc that worked just fine on the PC side. Just thought that I would give a heads up on that issue. Any thoughts?

Thanks again for all the hard work
Chris

[mommyman]

Decryption library (libdvdcpxm) is not ported to Linux & MacOS. You can't rip protected discs on Mac.

[Chrisssssssss]

I guess that explains it then...

[jolson]

Oh, *when* do I get the time to try these things out more thoroughly...

[Jens S]

Originally Posted by rasth

Has anyone cracked a SACD yet?

No, though PS3 probably provides the best platform so far for this.

Originally Posted by gfxnow

I've heard sony was going to release vaio computers capable of decoding DSD and playing SACDs.

Originally Posted by jolson

Didn't the earlier PS3's have such a drive?

The 20GB, 60GB and initial 80GB model have a CD/SACD/DVD/BD drive. The 40GB and new 80GB model announced this week just have a CD/DVD/BD drive. Probably all can play DSD Discs though.

There's a guide about how to make DSD Disc at http://www.ps3sacd.com/dsddiscguide.html

Originally Posted by gfxnow

@mommyman
sorry my post was a bit confusing, i said i've heard sony is going to release a SACD capable VAIO computer.
The VGN-FZ15G link was only about the DSD direct player, which shows that there is software support for DSD on their laptops, so perhaps a model might come out with a DVD/SACD/etc combo drive (like the one in the earlier Playstation 3s).

It must be technically possible but I doubt Sony will do that. SACD was specifically designed such that it can't be read by PC DVD-ROM drives.

On a side note i wonder if it is possible to hack/take-out the older SACD-supporting PS3 drive and get it to work with a PC, like what people did with the xbox hddvd drive.

Originally Posted by jolson

Possibly better to install Linux on the PS3...?

There's a discussion about the idea of playing SACDs under Linux on PS3 here.

Carrying a little further and probably more interesting (because the PS3's UI doesn’t support it) is the idea of playing DVD-Audio discs on PS3 under Linux. It's discussed in here.

The idea is that DVD-Audio is basically just a DVD-ROM (which PS3 can read) with some specific audio files (such as multichannel, high-resolution PCM, which the PS3 can decode) so if someone were to port a DVD-Audio player like DVDAE to Linux for PS3 it might make a yet greater multi-format player.

Sounds like an interesting idea?

[ron spencer]

thanks again for this proggy....such a big help.


I am curious though....are there any other development ideas?

thanks again!!!

[mommyman]

Beta 3: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4muyhm
Changes:
1. Build with the "official" mlpdec.c module (revision 14206).
2. User manual added.

[Balwyn]

Nice job Mommyman ! really really nice job, thanks a bunch

[ron spencer]

love it!!!

[rrkradio]

WRAUL ..... Please update to BETA 3 the OSX version

[musicmanseattle]

Hello!

First off, thanks so much to Mommyman and anyone else who's worked on this project - it great to be able to back up my DVD-A discs.

Had a question, though - I've got one DVD-A - Naxos 5.110102-03 - Bach's Mass in B minor conducted by Helmut Muller-Bruhl, that when I attempt to convert on particular track (Disc 2, Track 4) of the MLP disc data data to WAV, it crashes DVDAExplorer - access violation. Also, if I just grab the MLP directly off the disc (which works) and attempt to play it through the TrueHD/MLP decoder plugin for WinAmp, it doesn't play there either. However, the disc plays just fine through my 2 DVD-A disc players.

If I turn on logging in DVDAExplorer when attempting to convert to WAV, I see this:
[32] ### MLP Stream (channels: 6, sample_rate: 96000, bits_per_sample: 24) ###
[24] Stream parameters not seen; skipping frame.
There are lots of lines like the second one, then the app crashes with an access violation.

Can I provide more information about this error somehow for debugging purposes?


Thanks!

[Wraul]

Originally Posted by rrkradio

WRAUL ..... Please update to BETA 3 the OSX version

Here you go.

OS X Binary (Universal) of Beta 3

I haven't had time to test rip a DVD-A with it yet, hope it works without problems anyway.

[rrkradio]

Originally Posted by Wraul

Here you go.

OS X Binary (Universal) of Beta 3

I haven't had time to test rip a DVD-A with it yet, hope it works without problems anyway.

Hello Wraul, i tried "on the fly" with 2 DVD-A (one with PCM stereo 2ch and another with downmixing enabled) .... PERFECT under OSX 10.5.4

Tnx again