Posted by Ken Maltby on 10/26/07 21:14

"raylopez99" <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>

You have to decrypt the DVD first, then you can use Audacity
on the demuxed audio file. As I said you should have the
decrypting/ripping software output as demuxed audio and video.
It is that decrypted audio file that you edit with Audacity or other
audio software.

Even the old DVD Decrypter that comes with the Gordian Knot
download will do it in a couple of minutes. Any converter can
use the Lame MP3 encoding codec to turn your demuxed audio
into a .mp3 file in a few more minutes.

If you have www.VideoReDo.com you can use that on
the decrypted .vob, edit it and extract it to ES and even convert
the audio to .wav.

Luck;
Ken

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