[linux-audio-user] Extracting/Ripping tracks from DVD-Audio discs

[we are]

there are some worth while scripts at

http://james.nontrivial.org/projdvd.htm

i use them from time to time and as they are scripts they are easy to
configure, although i'm not sure if they are 'exactly' what you are
looking for.


On 3/20/07, D. Sen <dsen at homemail.com> wrote:
> The problem with all of these applications is that they downmix the
> audio down to stereo when storing to a wav file.
>
> Do you know if the tccat/tcdecode/tcextract command will save the
> individual tracks (interleaved or otherwise)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robin Gareus wrote:
> > D. Sen wrote:
> >> Robin Gareus wrote:
> >>> D. Sen wrote:
> >>>> Anyone know of a way to extract the multichannel audio from a DVD-Audio
> >>>> disc? Xine plays the multichannel files - so I assume there has to be a
> >>>> way to extract them...
> >>>>
> >>> there's `tcdemux` and `tcdecode` from the transcode package
> >>> - dvdrip provides is a GUI.
> >>>
> >>> (you can copy/paste dvdrip's LOG window for the commands it uses to do
> >>> the job. You only want the first part of the pipe: tcdemux | tcdecode..)
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >> dvdrip refuses to work on my distribution.
> >
> > mmh then there's the chance that tcdemux & tcdecode won't work either. -
> > usually you get those as dependency to dvd::rip.  - see.
> > http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode
> >
> > I'm sure that you can also use mplayer/mencoder or some ffmpeg command
> > line to do the same job.. gstreamer too..
> >
> >> Is there a chance you could
> >> tell me what the tcdemux | tcdecode scripts would be to extract the audio?
> >
> > sorry, I did not have my dvd drive with me.. now I do.
> >
> > how are your command line skills? dvd::rip does a lot of fancy piping  (
> > `man tee` -> man dvdrip-multitee ? :) ) - the command that does ripping
> > & demux is several pages long (includes 100 subtitle commands)...
> >
> > It boils down to sth like this:
> >
> > tccat -t dvd -T 1,-1,1 -i \/dev\/scsi\/host8\/bus0\/target0\/lun0\/cd  |
> > tcextract -a 0 -x ac3 -t vob | tcdecode -x ac3 | tcscan -x pcm
> >
> > adjust the device to match your DVD-ROM.  and replace the last step " |
> > tcscan -x pcm" with " > ripped-audio.pcm" to write the audio into a
> > file; or use " | tee ripped-audio.pcm | tcscan -x pcm" to write to a
> > file and scan for peak values..
> >
> > use sox or rezound or ... to convert the pcm into your favorite format!
> >
> > good luck,
> > robin
> >
> >
>
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