Posted by raylopez99 on 10/26/07 17:56

On Oct 26, 10:24 am, raylopez99 <raylope...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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).
>

I just tried importing a smaller .VOB file using Audacity,and, after
it loads it, converting it to .MP3, it gives, at the very end, a real-
time runtime error (and asks if you want to Send a report to Audacity,
etc). So it looks like with my system at least, I cannot do a non-
realtime transfer/conversion of DVD audio anyway (at least with my
copy of Audacity), so I'm stuck to doing the capture in realtime
(which is longer but not a big deal for me).

RL

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