Posted by raylopez99 on 10/26/07 17:24

On Oct 26, 7:29 am, "Ken Maltby" <kmal...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> While that process you describe includes some useful advice
> on using Audacity, a real time capture isn't needed. If you
> use the demux function of a "DVD Ripper" it will only take a
> few minuets to extract the audio. Then you will have decrypted
> audio that you can use in Audacity, BeSweet or any other audio
> program.


Your hardware must be incredibly powerful, or maybe capturing video is
just slow for me. I am running a five year old Pentium IV chip (it's
basically a souped up Celeron chip), with 2 GB RAM and a big HD, but
when I clicked (using Audacity) on a DVD .VOB file (to extract the
audio), I got a long wait (I aborted after 10 minutes) for a 1 GB
size .VOB file (and there were five such files comprising the DVD).
Finally, I decided to do a real time capture, so I played the DVD
(using Windows Media Player 10), capturing using "stereo" and default
settings in Audacity, went away for two hours, and when I came back
the file captured was 2.3 GB of audio (saved as .AU files--Audacity
format), which, using a module in Audacity, I am converting (as I type
this) to .MP3. If there's a quicker way let me know. Perhaps I
should have not aborted the .VOB file capture--maybe it's faster than
a realtime capture--would a 1 GB file take 30 minutes to load, and
then, what, another 30 minutes to save to .MP3? So perhaps it's twice
as fast to do a non-realtime capture (since it seems saving to .MP3
will take 30 minutes right now, so 2 hours realtime capture + 30
minutes to save to .MP3 = 150 minutes total).

RL

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