DVD audio to CD

[mreitter]

Greetings! I have a few DVD concerts that I would like to use to create audio CDs so I can listen to them in my car or my home stereo. Will Audacity allow me to pop the DVD into my PC drive (it does have a DVD/CD player/Recorder), save or copy the audio, then burn it onto a CD? I can currently insert a CD or DVD and make a copy of the item, but I only want the audio from the DVD. Thanks!

[kozikowski]

You should be able to add FFMpeg to your Audacity 1.3 program to read the imbedded sound tracks from DVDs.

Audacity 1.2 may not be able to deal with these jobs.

The real problem is going to be after you rip your DVD. If the show is in Dolby AC3 Surround, you will get the six original theater tracks, not a stereo mix needed for the Music CD. Also, the tracks will have theatrical range expansion and you'll have to get rid of that somehow, too.

It's sometimes easier to copy the music via cable from the Stereo Out of a DVD player into your computer -- assuming you have a Mac or Deskside PC. If you have a Windows Laptop, you might need a stereo adapter like the UCA-202.

Koz

[steve]

Audacity 1.2 may not be able to deal with these jobs.

Audacity 1.2 will not be able to deal with these jobs. To decode the audio from a DVD with Audacity you will need to install FFMpeg, and this is only supported by Audacity 1.3 (1.3.13 is recommended).

If the DVDs are home made, then you should be able to just copy the VOB files from the DVD and import them into Audacity 1.3.13 (with FFMPeg installed).
Commercial DVDs may be trickier as they may have multi-channel sound and may be copy protected.

More information about FFMpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg