Topic: Program to capture audio from DVDs without conversion?

[Evil Taper]

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.

[libfab]

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.

[sabre]

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

[libfab]

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.