How do you get the soundtrack off a DVD?

[Mr. Analog]

Robert Israel has composed some amazing unreleased accompaniments to old Harold Lloyd classics that I would love to have a backup of that I could listen to while doing mind numbing work.

Any quick n' easy tools?

[Melbosa]

Quick and easy, tape recorder and your home speakers.  Other than that, Cova might have something for you.

[Mr. Analog]

Quick and easy, tape recorder and your home speakers.  Other than that, Cova might have something for you.

Well, yes, I could just take a jack from my audio out and plug it into the audio in port but then I have to sit there in real time transferring it (like I do with LPs or cassettes).

I was hoping for a software solution.

[Cova]

I'm going to assume that this is a full video DVD, and not DVD-Audio.

1. Rip the DVD to your HD to remove CSS encryption.
2. Open it in DGMPGDec
3. Demux the audio tracks - this will give you the Dolby Digital AC3 streams without losing any quality at all.


It's been quite a while since I've worked with regular DVD's - I'm not sure what the best tool is for ripping anymore, I used to use DVD-Decrypter.

Googling around you can probably find guides on how to use those tools.  You can download them all from the Download page at www.doom9.org (sorry - doom9 has lots of javascript to make direct-links not work most of the time)

[Melbosa]

Ripping DVDs is as easy as AnyDVD (latest version) + DVD-Decrypter (still useful with AnyDVD).

[Mr. Analog]

Nice!