Have been trying to do this project at home with some problems. In researching the Afterdawn forums it seems the easy way to do this is by first running the dvd audio into your computer sound card, then record it, then burn it to cd. I tried this using the "sound recorder" to record, but got an unacceptable hiss. I'm not very technologically advanced; is there another way to record the audio to my hard drive? I've also ripped the dvd to the hard drive with DVD Decryptor, but cannot figure out how to get the audio off that rip and onto a CD. Can anyone walk me through this? Thanks, etc.
?- what type of audio files on the dvd do you want to convert to CD,-- ac3,DTS,LPCM? since you ran it thru decrypter I'm thinking it's a commercial disk and you haven't used decrypter in the ifo-stip steams mode. you can strip the audio streams from a dvd with several programs decrypter being one of them(from the disk--ifo mode, stream processing) also ifoedit, virtualdub, rejig, and probably the "swiss-army knife" of all programs pgcedit)but I haven't gone that far with pgcedit yet. if you already have the dvd file on HD (file mode by decrypter) (and we're talking about an ac3 [dolby digital] stream)then you can use besweet (with some plug-ins) to transcoded the ac3 stream directly from the vob (the container of dvd audio and video files) directly to 44.1k wav, or you can use smartripper, or rejig (open rejig, add the vob where the audio is to be stripped (demuxed) from, highlight the correct audio stream, demux, and set your destination folder) to strip the ac3 steam out and then headac3he (or besweet/azid--not sure yet but you may have to use ssrc to transcode the wav from 48 to 44k if you use besweet/azid to transcode an ac3 file to wav--I know headac3he will do it directly by selecting 44.1k) to convert the stripped ac3 stream to 44.1 wav (be sure to transcode to a 44.1k wav) and then burn to cd audio. I've never transcoded an lpcm steam or DTS stream from a dvd down to 44.1k wav so I couldn't comment. you also may want to think about using the editor feature of dvdshrink to edit down the video/audio cut from the dvd file on your Hd (if you're not going to record all the sound from start to finish off the dvd file). also is your filing system ntfs and not fat32 because fat32 will break the vobs into 1 gig chunks so a commercial dvd may have several vobs if you're going to transcode all the dvd audio from start to finish off a commercial dvd--which I've never done before. btw, I think all the programs above are freeware. here's a guide with virtualdubmod http://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubaudio.htm
Okay, here's where I am now. The dvd is not commercial, but something I downloaded. (a project w/audio) I ripped the dvd w/decrypter, then ran it through dvd2avi. I now seem some AC3 files, that I do not know what to do with. How do I get these to wav files? thanks
