I would like to extract or split the audio component of a standard DVD file (.vob) to a format which can be used in CD-R such as .cda files. There are many concert DVD's, for example, that I would like to hear the soundtrack in the car. Do I need to first convert to a VCD format then split? Can you help me with this? Thanks in advance.

David

-- David Stella (david_b_stella@yahoo.com), February 13, 2002

Answers

In www.flexion.org there is a subsection for converting DVDs to VCDs and one method is by using DVD2AVI, which takes the *.vobs and splits it into a pointer file *.d2v, and a complete *.wav file of your interest that can be used as source later for TMPGenc. The *.d2v file is small because it merely points to the *.vob structure, and in fact has to be converted into another pointer file *.avi by yet another program before submitting to TMPGenc. The *.wav file, however, is a bonafide sound file downsampled from the Dolby Digital soundtrack into a 48 or 44.1KHz sample *.wav, which, on most movies are therefore over 1GB in size. If, on processing with DVD2AVI you already downsampled to 44.1KHz there is no reason why you can't split the *.wav with a sound editor and burn an audio CD with the resulting files later.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), February 14, 2002.