Free DVD soundtrack ripping?

Smike

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Does anyone know if there's a free piece of software to do this?

Incidentally, whilst I was looking, I bumped across this site which has some good free software on it.*

Thanks.

*I am in no way affiliated with this site, and if you download a virus or something, it's not my fault, okay? The site looked good to me.
 
I'd probably use ffmpeg, and play back the DVD with no video ouput and hte audio redirected to a file. Commandline all the way.
 
MortFurd said:
I'd probably use ffmpeg, and play back the DVD with no video ouput and hte audio redirected to a file. Commandline all the way.
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Good suggestion. I wanted to suggest the same thing myself, but figured it would be too technical a solution.

If ffmpeg doesn't work for oyu, have a look at vlc. It has a Windows version, and should be able to do this no problem. If not vlc, try transcode. If not transcode, then... uh... try ffmpeg.

vlc and transcode and ffmpeg all take a bit of technical knowledge to use, though.
 
Will any of these solutions be faster than realtime? Do I have to watch the DVD? If so, I could just play it with PowerDVD, then record with audacity.
 
Google "gordian knot rip pack" it has all the tools for ripping audio and video.
It's a bit complicated, but it's the best.
Sorry for not posting a link to it, but I'm not allowed to post links until I get my 15 posts.
 
DiskoVilante said:
Google "gordian knot rip pack" it has all the tools for ripping audio and video.
It's a bit complicated, but it's the best.
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Let's help you get to 15 posts. What makes it the best? It looks to me like it handles a single format, and only certain operations on it. As opposed to something like vlc, which handles all kinds of ops on all kinds of data. Worst of all, while it claims to be GPL, the source code doesn't seem to be available. And the only distribution is a binary. For Windows. What's with that??? Please let me know why it's "Best."

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gordianknot

And here's your link. Welcome to the forums.

RE: Does it take as long as watching a video? ffmpeg, at least, will encode as fast as it can. I'm not sure about VLC, never having used it for any non-realtime purpose, myself.
 
scribble said:
Good suggestion. I wanted to suggest the same thing myself, but figured it would be too technical a solution.

If ffmpeg doesn't work for oyu, have a look at vlc. It has a Windows version, and should be able to do this no problem. If not vlc, try transcode. If not transcode, then... uh... try ffmpeg.

vlc and transcode and ffmpeg all take a bit of technical knowledge to use, though.
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I hesitated in posting it myself. Ffmpeg and friends are useful tools for computer geeks, but aren't always as well accepted by the point and click crowd. I waited six days for someone else to post a more mainstream solution before I suggested ffmpeg.

You might take a look at Mplayer and its buddy Mencoder as well.
 
scribble said:
Let's help you get to 15 posts. What makes it the best? It looks to me like it handles a single format, and only certain operations on it. As opposed to something like vlc, which handles all kinds of ops on all kinds of data. Worst of all, while it claims to be GPL, the source code doesn't seem to be available. And the only distribution is a binary. For Windows. What's with that??? Please let me know why it's "Best."
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Well, for my purposes and computer hardware I have it's worked faster than the other programs I've found and used. VLC player runs rather slow on my computer and it's stream processing is better suited for processing live streaming video from the web than from a file on the computer.

I didn't know about the source code thingy though.
 
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