Rip a certain Audio stream?

[Metal Priest]

I want to rip only the audio stream of a live-music dvd. its metallica S&M. on the dvd theres 4 audio streams, both S&M in different qualities, only the band and only the symphony. I only want the Band only track. What program should i use and how can i find out which of the thousand streams the one with the band only is?

Please help me.

Thx.

[aleksander]

Use SmartRipper. Select StreamProcessing (you will be able to see all tracks and select the one you want) select Extract to new file. Then convert it to whatever you like.
And read guides (SmartRipper guide especially).
aleksander

[Metal Priest]

I extracted the right ac3 file but after converting it into mp3 with the BeSweet tools the sound sucks. its kinda distortioned, like it would be too loud but it ain't.

what should I do?

Help me!

Thx!!

[Teegedeck]

Could be that you either normalized too much (for movies I use 93%) or used too much dynamic range compression. I'd say the latter is quite probable. Try a light compression or none at all. (I hope you can select that in BeSweet, I never used it before.)

Talking about software I never used, Doom9 mentions a tool on his newspage that does direct DVD->CD conversion. It's called 'BeSure'.

[diji1]

Try a light compression or none at all

...i don't think you should be using any normalisation or drc at all - its a good idea for movies but if you are trying to get the live tracks for listening to i think it will only mess with the sound too much.

another thing is that the music style of metallica leads to very full complex sounds which will require a high kbps for ur mp3 to model the sound, try encoding at a higher bitrate and see if that fixes ur "muddy" sound...