Help-ripping audio off DVD

[joesupra]

Good Morning everyone, I'd like to get some help on the following:
I'd like to "rip" the "audio" files from a DVD(Live Concert) and download them to my PC hardrive so I can create my own CD with the only music that I want to hear at anytime. Do I need a particular software to do this?, a program?,etc. I would appreciate any help/feedback and again, thank you for having this forum open for everyone, is a wonderful thing.

[CWR03]

Use DVD Decrypter in IFO mode to rip the main "movie," then using DGIndex extract the audio. You can select Audio > Output Method > Decode to WAV, or use BeLight to convert the demuxed AC3 to WAV or MP3. I personally would decode directly to WAV, then use something like Cool Edit to save it in sections as individual WAVs which can be burned to audio CDs, creating tracks.

[daphy]

Ripping
I would demux the VOBs with DVD-Decrypter or DGIndex
~> one big AC3 file

De/Re-encoding
then would feed this complete file to HeadAC3 (version from december 2004 or later! important) and decode the AC3 to a Dolby Surround ProLogic II (even if your actual hardware doesn´t support DPLII - you don´t know what you will buy next ;) )
~> one big WAV 48KHz

Downsampling/Normalization
CDAudio (rebook) needs 48 KHz
you can do this with many applications - chose the one you prefer f.e. besweet/belight, WaveWizard etc.
(Hint: HeadAC3 can do this for you in one step, too)
~> one big WAV 44.1KHz

Tracks without cutting the WAV via CUE Sheet
last step trhe single tracks - I would recommond to go back to your source DVD and take a look on the single tracks length via DVD-Decrypter.
Next you have to build a CUE file on this WAV by using CUEListTool a freeware I prefer for all kind of CUE operations. Now you have to import the WAV and type in your track´s length (Title, Artist ... optional) and save the CUE file. (CUEListTool also let you check the tracks with a replay function.)
~> CUE + WAV
Edit: You might use this (http://www.fr-an.de/soft/p01/index.htm) tool which makes things definitively easier, thx to LigH

Burning
the rest is easy: open the CUE file with nero, insert your CD-Rom and burn Baby burn!
~> CDAudio in Dolby Surround ProLogic II
(which of course also can be replayed with a normal stereo equipment)

Final hints: remember, if your source is longer than ~79:30 min you have to cut the WAV at least one time, Audacity does a good job on this, finally don´t forget to fade in/out in this case :cool:
Most of the mentioned programs can be found on needfulthings (http://www.needfulthings.webhop.org) :p

@Johnman
this could be a further function inside ww

decoding AC3 to DPLII
transforming a chapterlist to a working CUE Sheet with the option of adding Artist, Track Name, Album etc.

[johnman]

transforming a chapterlist to a working CUE Sheet with the option of adding Artist, Track Name, Album etc.

This doesnt seem to hard to do... it wil be in the next release :D

decoding AC3 to DPLII

I believe it is possible to use azid for DPL-II encodeing from ac3, but if i want to do something like this, i would rather have it working on any multichannel input (also wav,dts etc) . I have to look into this. Idea seems good, but i dont know how hard it is to get solid info on DPL-II encoding.

[tebasuna51]

I believe it is possible to use azid for DPL-II encodeing from ac3, but if i want to do something like this, i would rather have it working on any multichannel input (also wav,dts etc) . I have to look into this. Idea seems good, but i dont know how hard it is to get solid info on DPL-II encoding.
You can use this channel mapping:

6->2#mix#inactive#Dolby Prologic II downmix
0.323 0.000 0.000 0.323 0.228 0.228 0.000 0.000 -0.263 0.186 -0.186 0.263

- The exact coefficients must be:

Sour/Dest 0-LEFT 1-RIGHT (Wav_Ord)
--------- ------- ------- -------
Channel_0 0.3225 0 Front_L
Channel_1 0 0.3225 Front_R
Channel_2 0.2280 0.2280 Center
Channel_3 0 0 LFE
Channel_4 -0.2633 0.1862 Back_L
Channel_5 -0.1862 0.2633 Back_R

but the capture box in WW Channel Mapping is limited. Is possible edit mappings.ini to put more exact coefficients?

- This matrix is copied from source code of BS_Downmix plugin for BeSweet (http://besweet.notrace.dk/plug-ins.htm), and, I think, is used in BeSweet-azid.
Warning: the original source code expect an ac3 channel order (FL-C-FR-SL-SR-LFE)

- Like you can see in this matrix the LFE channel is lost.
DPL II is a logic 5.0 and any balanced signal is send to Center channel, but modern audio equipments can redirect low frequencies to subwoofer ... ?

- The output stereo wav must be normalized to avoid low volume.

- You can see more info in:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=27936
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27936
...

[johnman]

Thx for the info tebasuna51 :goodpost:and thx for the ideas daphy :goodpost: .

I'll increase the precission with 2 additional numbers, that should be enough, dont you think?

[daphy]

General question: is there a flag on the stream needed or does the decode always knows how to decode DPLII
HeadAC3 works via acid - no flag is set - DPLII sounds fine! :)

[joesupra]

Use DVD Decrypter in IFO mode to rip the main "movie," then using DGIndex extract the audio. You can select Audio > Output Method > Decode to WAV, or use BeLight to convert the demuxed AC3 to WAV or MP3. I personally would decode directly to WAV, then use something like Cool Edit to save it in sections as individual WAVs which can be burned to audio CDs, creating tracks.
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Thanks "CWR03" for replying back to me, but I'm very new at this and I'd like to know if you can make the steps that I need to take a little more clearer, please, such as What kind of VDV decrypter?, any brand?, any model?, what's DGindex?, what's Belight?, I don't mean to be a pain, but I just need to download the music files from a DVD just like you would from a music CD to my PC and then just burn them to a CD and listen away, again thank you.

[daphy]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=us&ie=UTF-8&q=DGindex
http://www.google.com/search?hl=us&ie=UTF-8&q=decrypter
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=85566
:rolleyes:

[joesupra]

I just want to thank everyone for all the help, I appreciate it.