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Extracting audio from a DVD movie

Dec 13, 2005 7:24AM PST

I have been trying to copy a song from a DVD movie. I have software that will let me rip the disc, which I have done. But I can't get any further. I just haven't been able to get to the audio part of the disc. Or even found the audio tracks. Is this something that can be done or am I wasting my time? Thank you.

Mike

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capturing audio
Dec 13, 2005 7:54AM PST

As long as your software will play the file with the sound streaming on the "line", you can capture it with any number of simple recorders. Windows has a simple one which captures to a wave file. Audacity is freeware (available at download.com) that will capture to wave files, and mp3 file if you download a separate codec.

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DVD audio
Dec 13, 2005 10:26AM PST

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Mike

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DVD audio
Dec 13, 2005 11:49AM PST

Real nice program! But, I still don't know how to find the audio files within the .VOB files.

Mike

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dvd audio files
Dec 14, 2005 1:53AM PST

Unfortunately, discrete audio files in the dvd format do not exist. However, if you can play the dvd files on your computer, you can capture the sound to a new wav file or mp3 file as described above.

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Dvd audio
Dec 14, 2005 6:46AM PST

Now that makes alot sense why I can't get it to work. Thank you very much for your help.

Mike

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Sure they do. Any good video editing program will
Dec 14, 2005 1:43PM PST

expose the audio file so that you can do as you wish with it. I use Sony Vegas which routinely splits audio and video into seperate tracks for editing.

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DVD audio
Dec 15, 2005 5:09AM PST

Thanks, I'm working on it now. Where do you get that software?

Mike

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One program needed is to convert the files on the
Dec 16, 2005 3:49PM PST

DVD to an mpeg-2 file. Those are available free on the internet. After that, Vegas can work with the mpeg2 file. Vegas is available from Sony.

The lite version, Vegas Movie Studio, is available online, or at places like Bestbuy. Although I've never used the lite version, it should also split audio and video into separate tracks which is what gives you access to the audio portion of the file.

I'm sure other video editors can also do this job.