Extract Songs from DVD

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:34:41 +0300, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I bought an original DVD but I cannot play that in my car's audio
>> player. Is there a tool that I can use to get the songs off the DVD in
>> WAV format, or even MP3?
>
> If the DVD does contain standard audio CD format data, there should
> be no problem. First, check the contents:
>
>        % cdcontrol info
>
> (I'll assume that /dev/acd0 is the drive the DVD is inserted into.)
>
> Then you can access every track via /dev/acd0txx, where xx is from 01
> up to the number of tracks. Tracks can be copied from the DVD with
> the dd command:
>
>        % dd if=/dev/acd0t01 of=track01.cdr bs=2352
>
> These usually are Audio CD data files: 44 kHz stereo, 16 bit. They can
> be put on a media as audio tracks without any change, for example if
> you use cdrecord with the -dao -audio flags (if I remember correctly),
> using a CD or DVD media. You can convert them to OGG/Vorbis or MP3
> using the encoder you wish, for example:
>
>        % oggenc -r -q 6 -o track01.ogg track01.cdr
>
> or
>
>        % sox -x track01.cdr track01.wav
>        % lame track01.wav track01.mp3
>
> (ugly variant, but works; I'm sure you'll find a better way, just
> have a look at the manpages).
>
> If you want, you can add ID3 track information, or simply use a good
> file name. :-)
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon

Hello Polytropon,

That sounds like the solution I was looking for! I will give the steps a shot.

Thank you do much.


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