extracting audio from DVDs?

[cellio]

Dear LazyWeb

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[cellio]

Oh, good point! (Alas, this would involve some dismantling to get the DVD player and computer close enough to connect, but it's a good fallback.)

Re: handbrake

[cellio]

Thanks. I downloaded the Windows version. That'll get me to MP4 but not MP3, but I found something else that takes that the rest of the way. (Updated entry.)

[filkerdave]

Or you could record the output of the DVD player using Audacity and export to WAV

[cellio]

Thanks. (Connecting the DVD player to the computer would require some dismantling, but Audacity sounds like a good tool to get on general principles.)

[filkerdave]

Not the physical DVD player...whatever one that the computer uses. Audacity should be able to capture that audio while it's playing in the computer.

[cellio]

Oh, thanks. That would be much easier. (I've seen cases where a computer could listen on input jacks but not from its own drives, though it's been a while, so I thought that's what you meant.)

[mbarr]

Handbrake? Not sure, but i think it can do it..

[cellio]

Handbrake gets as far as MP4 but can't do audio-only. But I found something else that's free and unrestricted that does MP4 to MP3, so that's ok.

[cellio]

Thanks. I updated the entry with what ended up working for me.