What is a Good Program to rip Audio from DVDs?

[RobK]

What is a good program to rip audio from unencrypted DVD's?

I know you can use programs like BeSweet, BESplit and Chapter-X-tractor but I have found that it is a long process.

I prefer one program that does not all and produces high quality OGG and/or MP3's.

Rob

[snherbst]

what about dgindex for avisynth.

[DarkZell666]

1) :readrule: here (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm). Asking what's best is asking for something that doesn't exist.
2) Ripping : DVDDecrypter does precisely that. It rips the audio to ac3, and can even cut the audio files at each chapter if you change some options (I ripped the different tracks from a concert that way recently) in IFO mode.
3) Converting : Once you ripped the audio to ac3, you can convert that to mp3/aac/ogg or whatever using any audio converting tool. BeLight is one of them (though the latest version didn't work as good as the previous ones ...). BeSweet works very well, I don't see any problem with it ? BeLight is simply an easy GUI for BeSweet actually ...

Actually, if you can't bother with the BeSweet way, googling for "audio converter" should probably find what you're looking for concerning step 3. Step 2 can only be done via "ripping" software, and DVDDecrypter is one of the most complete tools for this purpose. Since you have non-copy-protected DVD's, the fact it doesn't handle recent copy-protected DVD's shouldn't bother you.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

You can use DVD Decrypter as follows:

1) Load your DVD

2) Set DVD Decrypter to "IFO" mode

3) DVD Decrypter should automatically highlight/select the main

movie under the "Input" tab

4) Click on the "Stream Processing" tab and check "Enable

stream processing"

5) UNcheck all of the videostreams and audiostreams OTHER

THAN THE ONE YOU WISH TO EXTRACT.

6)HIGHLIGHT the stream you wish to extract

7) Click on "Demux"

8) Click on the "Destination" icon and select the drive/folder

location to save the audiostream to

9) Click on the "Decrypt" icon


Note - For an LPCM stereo audiostream, you may have to go

to:

Tools>>Settings>>IFO Mode and increase the VOB size from

1Gb to 2Gb, in order to be sure to generate only one .VOB for

the entire audiostream

[DarkZell666]

Actually, I just had a look at your 5 other posts, RobK, and fell on this :
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=111937

So you didn't actually get that problem sorted since ?

Anyway setarip_old just demystified the ripping process for you, so any audio converter that supports ac3 input should to the trick. I use foobar2000 (with tons of plugins and some extra cli stuff). dbPoweramp should be able to deal with that too IIRC.

Edit: @setarip please rectify :
1Gb to 2Gb, in order to be sure to generate only one .VOB for
"only one .VOB" should be "only one ac3 file", since he's in demux mode ;)

[RobK]

Thanks for all the input.

Yes, I ahve ripped Audio from DVD's in the past using BELight/BESweet, DVD Decrypter, Chapter-X-Tractor. But it is a long process.

e.g.

1) Use DVD Decrypter to rip the Audio to ONE big AC3 file.

2) Use BeLight/BeSweet to convert the AC3 file to one big WAV.

3) Use Chapter-X-Tractor (and BeSplit) to split the WAV into individual WAV files.

4) Use your favourite MP3 encoder to convert into MP3 etc.

This is very tedious if you have more than a couple of DVD's you wish to rip.

Thanks for pointing out DGIndex. It looks like if I use DGIndex I can save a couple of steps.

Rob
P.S. I kknow there are a couple of commercial apps out there that can do all of this in one program. Just load the DVD, pick the tracks and click rip. Too bad there isn't any freeware like this.

[DarkZell666]

DVDDecrypter can save at least step 3 :
In Tools > Settings > IFO mode :
You can set "File Splitting:" to "By Chapter".

"the ac3 to wav + wav to mp3" can be shortened from ac3 to mp3 directly with besweet.

BeSweet is capable of decoding ac3 and encoding to mp3 directly, also normalizing (+boosting optionnally) and downmixing 5.1 to stereo on the fly.

So you only have 2 steps :
- Rip multiple ac3's (one for each chapter) with dvddecrypter.
- encode multiple ac3 to mp3 using besweet via a batch file.

You need to copy the correct plugins in the besweet folder for some features (downmixing for example), but once that's done it's out of the way :)

[DarkZell666]

Half an hour has passed by, and here is what I managed to whip up :

SET BSPATH="c:\program files\belight\besweet.exe"
for %%a in (./*.ac3) do %BSPATH% -core( -input "%%a" -output "%%a-TEST.mp3" -logfile "%%a.log" ) -azid( -c normal --maximize ) -ssrc( --rate 44100 ) -lame( -b 128 )


This decodes all .ac3 files in the current folder and encodes them to lame @ 128kbps, downsampling to 44.1hkz (CD standard), maximizing the volume, and (implicitly ?) downmixing the contents from 5.1 to stereo (I haven't checked this last point in detail, it just "sounds" correct).

Of course, this assumes you have BeLight installed (with all the bundled BeSweet stuff) in "c:\Program Files\BeLight".
Note: the options inside the -lame() section are the same as for the lame.exe CLI.

[setarip_old]

@DarkZell666

Your partial quote of the procedure I described was only about LPCM audiostreams - and is not applicable to .AC3 audiostreams which, for a single or double layered DVD never exceed 1Gb...

[DarkZell666]

What I meant was that in demux mode the output file format's never .vob but .ac3, .wav, .pcm, .m2v or whatever else the raw stream format should be demuxed too. Sorry for the nitpick though ;)

[RobK]

Thanks DarkZell666.

I used to use DVD Decrypter to convert the DCD Audio into multiple AC3's but I found that BeLight could not convert the multiple AC3's into MP3's due to a bug in Belight .22 beta 9 (and RC1).

But you solution may get around that bug in Belight by not using Belight at all. Just use a simple Script and BeSweet. I will give that a try.

Oh yes, by the way there is ONE more very time consuming step -- adding ID3 Tag info to the MP3 tracks. Ubfortunately, the DVD does not have any real meta data to export so you must enter the track name for each MP3 track manually using your favorite MP3 Tag Editor. A real pain but there is no way to avoid it. (You also need to enter the artist name, album name (if any), genre etc, but with a good MP3 Tag editor you only need to do that once by letting the Tag editor apply that info to all your tracks).

Rob