On Debian based Linux distributions, e.g. Debian Sarge, Fervent-STG, and so forth, I find the following two command line programs very useful for extracting and manipulating DVD contents: dvdbackup (to get the info on the hard drive) ffmpeg (for audio and/or video transcoding/format conversion) They are usually supplied with the distribution itself. You may need to add deCSS depending on your region. Otherwise the dependency issues are not too bad, unlike dvd::rip The manual (man) pages are also reasonably complete and clear. Good luck, A Nonny Mous > 4. Re: Extracting/Ripping tracks from DVD-Audio discs (D. Sen) > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:56:12 +1100 > From: "D. Sen" <dsen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Extracting/Ripping tracks from > DVD-Audio discs > To: Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <45FF150C.5090106@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > 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 > > >
