Posted by raylopez99 on 10/27/07 09:20

On Oct 26, 2:14 pm, "Ken Maltby" <kmal...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> > 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.
>
>

Thanks for the advice. Your advice is good for a heavy duty DVD user,
but not for me--I'm just trying to trip 3 DVDs of their audio (speech,
not music). Here's how I wasted 2 hours this morning:

I checked out three programs, actually more, since some were flagged
as "trojans" by my anti-virus program (the banned in the USA program
DVD Decrypt 3.3.4.0 for example--probably a false positive but I was
too afraid to install it), and none of them, because they were
shareware or otherwise, worked. For example Easiestutils DVD Audio
Ripper 4.9.0.63 failed on my generic Penitum 4, relatively modern XP
OS system. Another one called DVD to MP3 I found on Download.com
failed. If I rebooted (I didn't bother since on my system rebooting
takes 5 to 10 minutes), which sometimes helps with the registry file,
disabled all my spyware/virus background programs, asked users on
various forums after registering, kept trying with other programs,
eventually (after about a half a day IMO) I would probably get at
least one such decrypting/ripping program to run, but for now I'll do
my business using the 'old-fashioned' way of simply real-time capture
using Audacity, which seems to work with not too much noise (real-time
capture does introduce a bit of background hiss, but since I'm
capturing the words rather than music, I don't really care).

RL

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