I just got Blue Man Group's "Audio" DVD and I would love to rip it to my harddrive so I didn't need the DVD each time I wanted to listen to it. It seems to be Doby Digital 5.1 audio. Is this possible to rip in its original format and to play it in Winamp?
thanks!
edit: Which would be better to rip? AC3 or DTS?
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I can't answer your question - though I don't think there's been a hack around yet for ripping dvd-a.
However, I can tell you if it's a dvd-a disc, you don't want to rip the DD5.1 track: this is a lossy and inferior version of the music, only meant for compatibility with simple players. The high quality losslessly compressed dvd-a data is in another track on the disc.
Edit: removed unnecessary quoting... damn, I keep doing that wrong; hitting quote when I meant reply...
However, I can tell you if it's a dvd-a disc, you don't want to rip the DD5.1 track: this is a lossy and inferior version of the music, only meant for compatibility with simple players. The high quality losslessly compressed dvd-a data is in another track on the disc.
Edit: removed unnecessary quoting... damn, I keep doing that wrong; hitting quote when I meant reply...
One side is DVD-Audio and the other is DVD-Video (same audio, with still pictures you can see as the music plays). It seems it has Dolby on both sides and no PCM audio or anything 
Smartripper or DVDdecrypter from www.doom9.org should be capable of handling the DVD-video side fine ... both have a stream processing feature, so you can simply extract the AC3 streams from the DVD to your HDD and process/play them from there.
BTW, if its a AC3 stream on the other side also, then its certainly NOT a DVD-Audio ....
BTW, if its a AC3 stream on the other side also, then its certainly NOT a DVD-Audio ....
I got one DVD-Audio too. I'd love to rip it, but there are no DVD-A rippers out yet. But using smartripper or any other dvd-video ripper you can rip the DoblyDigital x.1 and/or the DTS stream. But as Patsoe says, these streams are compressed lossy so I don't recommend them.
As I don't have DVD-Audio player I ripped the Dolby Digtal Stream and was able to play from my harddisc.
fragtal
EDIT: AFAIK DTS has a higher bitrate than DD; so: you should use DTS
As I don't have DVD-Audio player I ripped the Dolby Digtal Stream and was able to play from my harddisc.
fragtal
EDIT: AFAIK DTS has a higher bitrate than DD; so: you should use DTS
Try this link for a good guide to audio ripping from a dvd:
http://www.glump.net/content/audio_dvd_rip/guide.htm
http://www.glump.net/content/audio_dvd_rip/guide.htm
Play AC3 in Winamp did you say? See this.
Oh cool, an ac3 input for Winamp. I didnt know bout this, but hey, if you're into ac3 rips from DVD's, this is pretty handy.
hey, that's very serious thing. we have audigy2, which can play DVD-A. Audigy2 uses the Crystal multichannel codec and is connected via SM-bus or something similar, so, my question is, what happen when we bypass the digital signal way TO DAC and connect it to digital line FROM ADC B) our honey bytes are flowing across the card, we only need to catch them and save them, is that right? 
yup...
another way to rip... is x2cd..
http://www.x2cd.net
they state that you can
copy the DVDA disc to a standard CD.
in one..
this i haven't tried.. but i have
ripped a standard CD to HD.. (wav)
and the track`s is slightly smaller in size.
than the org.
so i have doubt`s.. in the quality.
feat:
Direct mp3 to cd burner, mp3 to wav converter. (uses Lame_enc.)
Supports CD-TEXT burning and Burn-proof technology.
Normalising is supported to make the volume of the tracks equal.
Creates a movie soundtrack CD directly from a DVD or VCD.
Media Player - supports mp3, divx, wma, avi, ogg and other formats.
Audio Converter - converts mp3 to wav, wma to mp3, avi to mp3.
CD Ripper - rip tracks into mp3 or wav from your Audio CD just by one click.
100% WinXP compatible.
CD Database - manage your Cd's with CD album database.
FreeDB support - retrieves the CD information from the Internet.
Creates fantastic CD Covers.
Fully flexible skin architecture.
Supported Audio Formats include:
1. MP3 audio files: .mp3, .m3u
2. MPEG 1/2 Audio/Video files: .vob, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .mpa, .mpe, .mp2
3. Divx MPEG4 video files: .avi, .mp4, .divx
4. DVD file: .ifo
5. Dolby AC3 Audio stream files: .vob
6. Windows media files: .asf, .wm, .wma, .wmv, .asx, .wmp, .wmx
7. Ogg Vorbis format files: .ogg, .ogm
8. Other format files: .wav, .au, .snd, .ivf ......
X2CD Music mp3 CD Burner burns media files directly to audio Cd's. Simple and faster!
For non-44.1KHz audio, X2CD automatically uses a high quality resample function to convert it to CD audio format.
On the other hand, X2CD is a cute multimedia player which supports mp3, divx, wma, ogg and other formats.
It's also including a converter to convert almost all kinds of media to wav files or mp3 files for further processing, and including a CD ripper to rip the authentic music from your CD to mp3. X2CD supports FreeDB to retrieve the CD information from the Internet for you.
You can save record to or load a previous record from your CD album database for better management of the CD`s made by you.
but as i said..
the ripping quality could have been better...
try it out.. and see...
another way to rip... is x2cd..
http://www.x2cd.net
they state that you can
copy the DVDA disc to a standard CD.
in one..
this i haven't tried.. but i have
ripped a standard CD to HD.. (wav)
and the track`s is slightly smaller in size.
than the org.
so i have doubt`s.. in the quality.
feat:
QUOTE
Direct mp3 to cd burner, mp3 to wav converter. (uses Lame_enc.)
Supports CD-TEXT burning and Burn-proof technology.
Normalising is supported to make the volume of the tracks equal.
Creates a movie soundtrack CD directly from a DVD or VCD.
Media Player - supports mp3, divx, wma, avi, ogg and other formats.
Audio Converter - converts mp3 to wav, wma to mp3, avi to mp3.
CD Ripper - rip tracks into mp3 or wav from your Audio CD just by one click.
100% WinXP compatible.
CD Database - manage your Cd's with CD album database.
FreeDB support - retrieves the CD information from the Internet.
Creates fantastic CD Covers.
Fully flexible skin architecture.
Supported Audio Formats include:
1. MP3 audio files: .mp3, .m3u
2. MPEG 1/2 Audio/Video files: .vob, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .mpa, .mpe, .mp2
3. Divx MPEG4 video files: .avi, .mp4, .divx
4. DVD file: .ifo
5. Dolby AC3 Audio stream files: .vob
6. Windows media files: .asf, .wm, .wma, .wmv, .asx, .wmp, .wmx
7. Ogg Vorbis format files: .ogg, .ogm
8. Other format files: .wav, .au, .snd, .ivf ......
X2CD Music mp3 CD Burner burns media files directly to audio Cd's. Simple and faster!
For non-44.1KHz audio, X2CD automatically uses a high quality resample function to convert it to CD audio format.
On the other hand, X2CD is a cute multimedia player which supports mp3, divx, wma, ogg and other formats.
It's also including a converter to convert almost all kinds of media to wav files or mp3 files for further processing, and including a CD ripper to rip the authentic music from your CD to mp3. X2CD supports FreeDB to retrieve the CD information from the Internet for you.
You can save record to or load a previous record from your CD album database for better management of the CD`s made by you.
but as i said..
the ripping quality could have been better...
try it out.. and see...
thanx all of u 4 info
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