DVD Audio

Kaji01 · Post by **Kaji01** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:09 am

Ok, I'm trying to take the sound from a DVD of mine and use it for a couple of projects I'm kicking around, but I'm having little luck with it so far, in spite of having successfully done it before.

Basically, I'm starting by ripping the track I want with SmartRipper. I tried ripping just the audio track, but due to the fact that it wouldn't load in DVD2AVIdg when I did that I went back and ripped it with the video as well and saved the project. Previously I'd done this before on one of my Eva eps and gotten a WAV file for the English audio, even in spite of having told it to filter out the audio streams. In this case I ended up with an AC3 file, which I can't get SoundForge, VirtualDub, or any other program I have on hand to recognize. Any suggestions on what to do?

On a side note, it's showing the English audio in AC3 and SDDS when I pull up the stream filtering in SmartRipper...I'm assuming that the AC3 is the one it's actually processing, in spite of the fact that I told it to rip both, but I don't know what the other stands for in the first place offhand...

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:57 am

You basically need a program that will support AC-3 Dolby Digital.

Ulead Media Studio 7.0 supports AC-3. Video Studio 8.0 will support it with an additional plugin for AC-3.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:29 am

you can use besweet to transcode the ac3 to wav

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:16 am

In DVD2AVIdg or DGIndex (whichever you have), under the Audio menu, then under the Output Method submenu, select "Decode to WAV (AC3, LPCM)".

Now when you save a D2V, it will give you a WAV file of whatever audio was in the VOBs you put into the program. The file will be in the same directory as your new D2V.