Audio From Dvd

i have just copied a dvd from dvdfab and then converted it with avidemux to get it to avi. (i still have the video_tf folders), there is a piece of music from the film which i would really like to have, is it possible to get this to mp3? it may be in my favour that one of the .vob files is a dvd menu clip which contains the audio track i like. please say what i've just said makes sense? <_<

thanks for any help. ps thanks microchip and oldcpu for suggesting all the dvd ripping software...it's all hunky-doory now (without windows )

you can open the VOB in avidemux, copy the video and set the audio to WAV, then save to avi and process the avi with mplayer to get a WAV file, eg

mplayer file.avi -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:fast:file=$HOME/audio.wav

if mplayer crashes for some reason, remove -vc null from the commands

btw, if you're sucker for video quality, then I suggest you try out h264enc, divxenc or xvidenc as they beat everything available for Linux when it comes to quality encodings

you can open the VOB in avidemux, copy the video and set the audio to WAV, then save to avi and process the avi with mplayer to get a WAV file, eg

mplayer file.avi -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:fast:file=$HOME/audio.wav

if mplayer crashes for some reason, remove -vc null from the commands

btw, if you're sucker for video quality, then I suggest you try out h264enc, divxenc or xvidenc as they beat everything available for Linux when it comes to quality encodings
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ok thanks microchip i will give this a go. i'm guessing when i open the .vob file in mplayer it won't append all the others (to get the audio for a 2hour movie ). will let you know how i go, your the multimedia guru i believe
video quality is usually great for me, i always choose a custom size depending how good i want it to be, for stuff i like normally 8-900mb for an hour (i only watch it on 17" monitor)

will let you know if i'm successful lol

cheers,

Ross.

of courese it will, you can dump the audio of the whole movie to a WAV file, just use

mplayer dvd://<title> -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:fast:file=$HOME/audio.wav

where <title> is the movie title (1 or 2 or 3, eg dvd://1 ....)

EDIT if you're ripping from the hard drive, then also specify the path to the VIDEO_TS folder, eg

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /top/directory/of/the/video_ts/folder

microchip, i now have the problem when i click on the 1st .vob file it automatically says 1hour 56mins, it no longer asks me if i wish to append the other .vob files. what next? :huh:

edit: just read previous post (i left this topic open then clicked new reply, so yours didn't appear)

hang on...

it worked lovely! thanks a lot. although it did say 'your system is too slow to play this' for some reason...? i hardly call dual core 2GHz and 2GB ram SLOW...? o well, it worked. thanks very much.

it worked lovely! thanks a lot. although it did say 'your system is too slow to play this' for some reason...? i hardly call dual core 2GHz and 2GB ram SLOW...? o well, it worked. thanks very much.
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nothing to worry, it displays all the time such messages