Is there a program available which captures the digital audio from a DVD without the DA>AD soundcard step? Basically I just want to record samples from DVDs without messing with the audio quality. Thanks.
Hi
it depends on whether your audio is 16 or 24 bits. Many common DVD burners are rippers too for 16bit-tracks. To ensure 24 bit-audio extraction, just check out the free apps mentioned in my post on the sticky http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,62294.30.html
(for DVD-video, first transform VOBs into LPCM then extract wav out of LPCM)
Also see the thread DVR-Audio (extract to wav)?, still alive, if you have DVD audios, as the process is different.
You want to demultiplex the video into elementary streams. Any demux utility will do this.
If you want something more user friendly, check out this link: http://www.aoamedia.com/DVD-to-WAV.htm
There's also dvd-decrypter, a neat free app sadly banned in the us it seems for legal reasons (which is why I didn't mention it first). Check "convert PCM to wav" in "stream processing" settings panel.
Good tutorial here http://www.dvdshrink.info/dvd-decrypter.php
and homepage here : http://www.dvdhelp.us/dvddecrypter/dvddecrypter.html
Does the same job as dvd-to-wav basically.