ripping DVDs

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:53 -0500, David Vernon wrote:
> David Vernon wrote:
> 
> > 
> > # got tcextract? 'yum install transcode' if not.
> > tcextract -i ./vid.fifo -t vob -x mpeg2 > ./ofile.m2v &
> > tcextract -i ./aud.fifo -t vob -x ac3 -a 0 > ./ofile.ac3 &
> > 
> Someone in this thread asked about ripping the soundtrack of their music
> dvds to mp3 for their ipod. The above command is basically how you would
> do that. First do 'mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile ./dump.out' on the title
> and then run the resulting file through tcextract with '-x mp3' instead
> of '-x ac3'. Something like:
> tcextract -i dump.out -x mp3 >big.mp3
> 
> Presto, a big mp3 to kick the tar out of your ipod battery ;-)
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yowza - I think I have a good reason to replace my CD R/W with a DVD R/W
now. I have a fair number of music DVD's

Thanks

Craig