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DVD soundtrack ripping
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tcherel
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14. April 2003 @ 14:35 |
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I found multiple posts on this forum explaining how to get the soundtrack part of a DVD (for example, getting the sound of a concert DVD). The easiest method that I found (and working pretty well) is (thanks jnihil):
1. Rip the DVD to HDD with DVDdecrypter.
2. Convert the audio to wav with DVD2AVI
I did not find anything to keep the initial DVD chapter marks. What I mean is at the end I get one big wav file of the complete soundtrack. Is there a way to get one per chapter of the DVD or should I work on the wav file using a sound editing tool?
Thanks.
Thomas
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thingimij
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14. April 2003 @ 15:00 |
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you could actually use dvd2avi to split the audio up by using the [ and ] keys at the bottom.
will take longer as you will have to know where it starts and stops but it will do the job.
thingimijig.
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loaded
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14. April 2003 @ 15:38 |
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Yyou could rip each chapter (which I assume will be a song on the DVD) separately, into separate files, then demux them into audio and video. This will leave you with the tracks you wanted based on the DVD chapters. SmartRipper is best for this, just change the filesplitting settings into every chapter :)
I am guessing your next question ,which might be that if the tracks are from a live DVD, how do you fade in and out? That is easy with Neros wave editor software, which comes with the program. You will need this to burn to CD, which is what I imagine you want to do anyway!
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tcherel
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15. April 2003 @ 22:10 |
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Thanks for the help. I will try the different alternatives.
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loaded
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16. April 2003 @ 08:45 |
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Please let me know how you get on. Any more help on this subject, please post to this thread.
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tcherel
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16. April 2003 @ 19:27 |
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A short answer: working great !!!!
But here is more detailed on what I did. Hope this help anyone interested.
I used SmartRipper and DVD2AVI.
With SmartRipper, on my XP machine, I also had to get the ASPI drivers from adaptec. There are not supposed to be
required for accessing my drive (at least it seems that this is what SmartRipper is telling me), but without those,
SmartRipper seems to behave very strangely (I can start ripping but it is either very slow, or nothing is
happening).
Once SmartRipper is working fine (I used http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/sr.htm as a guide to make it work ok),
I started it with the following options:
SmartRipper.exe -Ci "E:\" -Co "L:\" -Cs "D:*" -Cr -Sf 2 -Sk 0
E:\ is the path to my DVD.
L:\ is the path to where I want the extracted VOB files to be created.
Check the text files coming with SmartRipper for the details of those options, but it is basically saying "rip all
stream (audio and video) and split it chapter by chapter without decrypting".
It should start SmartRipper and start the ripping automatically.
I am not 100% sure of the effect of the "without decrypting" (-Sk 0 option). If I do not use it, the ripping sometimes
stops and spends an awful lot of time trying to find a key for proposing me, at the end, to use the previous one.
For the DVD I ripped, turning the decrypting off seems to be harmless. I am not sure this is always the case ....
I also tried to rip only the audio track, since this is all I am interested by, but DVD2AVI did not like that too much (I could not generate a WAV file from the audio-only VOB).
At the end, you get one vob file by chapter. Check the one you want using any DVD reader software that can read a
VOB file.
Then I start DVD2AVI and followed the steps described in http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/sefy/frameserv1.cfm
Only one difference, when DVD2AVI is listing all the available VOB, I make sure that only one is selected at a time (to have one one WAV file per chapter).
Repeat the operation for each chapter and you get at the end a WAV file for each of them.
If anyone know another tool that can process automatically all the vob files and create a separate WAV file for each of them all at once, I am interested (it will not force me to stay in front of the computer to switch between each chapter). A command line tool will be nice, I can write scripts around it.
Then, I used MusicMatch (File menu, Convert) to convert the WAV files in mpeg.
I have some other concert DVDs with some multiple-angle feature. I might provide more information when I am done with these as I believe DVD2AVI might have some issues with multiple-angles.
Thomas
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loaded
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17. April 2003 @ 07:24 |
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Not sure if you can do that, to be honest, but SmartRipper automatically creates a text file with all the details of where each chapter begins and ends in min:sec etc. If you printed this out and put the bg wave into an editor, it moght be quicker. Then again, handling big wav files can be slow and unstable.
Sorry I can't help further. Most software hasn't actually been designed for the purpose you wanted :)
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tcherel
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18. April 2003 @ 05:10 |
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After a little more research ins the software section, I found AC3Dec v0.821. You can give it a list of VOB and it will extract each individual sound track of each vob in separate files. It was even simpler to use that DVD2AVI (in my case, and for what I want to do, of course). It is working pretty well so far.
I must congratulate whoever is behind afterdawn.com and people helping through the forum. A lot of resources, a lot of help. I never tried to rip any DVD before and in a couple of hours I was able to do exactly what I wanted to. Thanks :-)
Thomas
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loaded
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18. April 2003 @ 05:41 |
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It is people like you that make helping on this site worthwhile :)
Pleased we could help.
Paul
PS : Did that software you mentioned actually extract separate files for each wav? If you had ripped in SmartRipper the way I mentioned, with separate vobs for each chapter, then it sounds like exactly what you wanted :) DVD2AVI only seems to be able to attach all the vobs together in sequence.
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tcherel
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18. April 2003 @ 06:30 |
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SmartRipper is creating a separate VOB file per chapter like you said it will. The only issue with DVD2AVI is I cannot just give it all the vob files at once to create a separate wav file for each vob. I have to give it one vob file at a time, which is making the process a little painful.
With AC3Dec, I can do that. I give it all the vob files created by SmartRipper and I can let it run unattended and get, at the end, one wav file for each vob file.
Both DVD2AVI and AC3Dec do the job fine, the only difference is in the automation of the job.
Thomas
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