Rip Tiny Parts of DVD audio

[mobrien_12]

I'd like to rip tiny parts of DVD audio for personal use (no copyright infringement so MPAA go $%#^ off)... like to make wav files for a desktop theme.  Anyone know of a good program?  I looked at dvd::rip but it seems geared towards ripping entire chapters and saving as movies.

[KernelPanic]

I cant think of a way to rip a small section exclusively so I would do this:

mplayer dvd://1 -vc null -vo null -ao pcm -waveheader -aofile dvd.wav

Which would rip it all to a (large)wav. Then I would use sox to trim it, you might want to use something more intuitive.

[ May 18, 2004: Message edited by: Tux ]

[Fett101]

For a theme? I'd just use a simple ole' recorder that can "Rip what you hear" type thing. MY creative sound card came with a spiffy one, but I don't know what other ones there are.

[mobrien_12]

Sorry about not following this up with my results...

Well, I couldn't find a "play what you hear" recorder        

I ended up working with mplayer.  There is a command line switch that lets you start playing from a time index, and you can stop it with the "Q" key.  Only problem is, you need to do the recording with no audiable cues.

  It's not too bad though and I cut down the wav files even further with kwave (which also let me do nice things like fadeout, fadein, etc.).  Encoding in Ogg-Vorbis cut the file size down by a factor of 10 for a couple of really long clips (I got a little carried away when I got into it).

Thanks guys.  

[ June 16, 2004: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[Xeen]

quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
I'd like to rip tiny parts of DVD audio for personal use (no copyright infringement so MPAA go $%#^ off)... like to make wav files for a desktop theme.  Anyone know of a good program?  I looked at dvd::rip but it seems geared towards ripping entire chapters and saving as movies.

DVD2AVI - best solution. You'll get all the audio you want in a wav file.