[LawnGnome]

I'm trying to rip the beatles Love DVD.

I want to do it at the full bit rate and sampling rate, and into FLAC as stereo.

All the programs are pay programs, is there a free simple way to do it?

 

[Redo]

Check hydrogenaudio forums

 

[Joshatdot]

I used DVD Decrypter to rip the AC3 audio & foobar2000+AC3 plugin & LAME to convert to mp3.

 

[Assorted]

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Originally Posted by Joshatdot /img/forum/go_quote.gif I used DVD Decrypter to rip the AC3 audio & foobar2000+AC3 plugin & LAME to convert to mp3.

Thanks, I was looking for this info too.

 

[infinitesymphony]

AC-3 is lossy--it's not DVD-Audio.

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Originally Posted by LawnGnome All the programs are pay programs, is there a free simple way to do it?

No. There's not even a decent for-pay program that does everything right. At least, not yet.

 

[OverlordXenu]

I could have sworn that I heard somewhere that it is impossible to rip DVD-A, unless you record the outputs of a player.

 

[Gatticus]

If you had an X-Fi you can record DVD's easily using audio creation mode. It won't do .flac though. I've only done it once and used .mp3. You can rip to .wav though and then convert to .flac.

If you set X-Fi to record "what you hear" you can record everything and anything.

 

[SysteX]

When using the X-Fi in this manner, aren't there extra D->A (as the DVD-A is read and "output") and A->D (as the "output" sound is now "input" and converted back to digital) conversions? Or does it actually keep everything in the digital domain?

 

[calcajun]

If you want to get the higher res (48 or 96 khz) stereo audio off, that is very easy. I do it all the time including the love dvd so i can convert to FLAC and play wherever i want.
I use cybelink power dvd to play the high res stereo while at the same time recording it with sound forge. When done i have a high res 24bit wave that i then convert to FLAC.
I can't do this with windows media player for whatever reason. I also use an M-Audio sound card if that makes any difference.
Anyway it is possible. and it is as easy as playing the disk.

 

[DJShadow]

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Originally Posted by calcajun /img/forum/go_quote.gif If you want to get the higher res (48 or 96 khz) stereo audio off, that is very easy. I do it all the time including the love dvd so i can convert to FLAC and play wherever i want. I use cybelink power dvd to play the high res stereo while at the same time recording it with sound forge. When done i have a high res 24bit wave that i then convert to FLAC. I can't do this with windows media player for whatever reason. I also use an M-Audio sound card if that makes any difference. Anyway it is possible. and it is as easy as playing the disk.

Thank you! Is there an alternative to Sound Forge (i.e free)?

 

[infinitesymphony]

PowerDVD 6 only played DVD-Audio with Creative sound cards... Has this changed for PowerDVD 7?

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Originally Posted by DJShadow /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thank you! Is there an alternative to Sound Forge (i.e free)?

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

 

[epaludo]

Video Help has lots of tutorials regarding DVDs and videos in general ...

 

[calcajun]

It is at ver 7.2 . The reason i chose it was due to the long list of formats it plays. Also does Blu-Ray. But i realy use it for different audio formats.
Multichannel mp3, DTS 96/24, direct 24/96, H.264, MLP lossless ect

 

[Gatticus]

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Originally Posted by SysteX /img/forum/go_quote.gif When using the X-Fi in this manner, aren't there extra D->A (as the DVD-A is read and "output") and A->D (as the "output" sound is now "input" and converted back to digital) conversions? Or does it actually keep everything in the digital domain?

Not sure, I just know it sounds fine as I ripped The Cure doing Pornography live and I don't hear any difference from the original DVD. But then I never did an A/B comparison either.

 

[Gatticus]

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Originally Posted by DJShadow /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thank you! Is there an alternative to Sound Forge (i.e free)?

He's doing the same thing I do with the X-Fi. No extra software needed with X-Fi as it is included from Creative.