where to go for info on extracting audio from dvd's or video files

I did a web search for software to extract audio from DVD's. I am mainly wanting to find reviews on good software. What I am wanting to do is, if I had a music concert on a commercially released DVD or on a dvd recorded on a home recorder(the kind that hooks to a TV set) how could I extract just the audio so I can put it on cd or convert it to mp3. I would assume if I used a home DVD recorder to record just music the extraction process would be the same. Can anyone tell me a forum thread to go to, a web link for reviews, or maybe even names of various software I can look up reviews individually.

 

There are a few methods to rip audio from standard DVD..This works pretty darn good..Once ripped you can import the audio tracks in Audacity for editing if you like..Save as wav(IMO)for better quality and burn the wavs to CD..You can always use the wav(s) for lossy conversion at a later time..
http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/136/59/

Edit: to add some more links.Good luck!
http://www.castudio.org/dvdaudioextractor/
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

 

AOA Audio Extractor, free:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Editors-Recorders/AoA-Audio-Extractor.shtml

 

I'm not sure but U can try Video mp3 Extractor PRO from geovid.com.May be it helps U.

 

rip a whole dvd audio to wav (or anything else just about..).. so simple it doesn't even need a special app.. transcode is a free command line tool used by many video manipulation programs..

transcode -i /dev/dvd -x dvd -T 1,-1 -a 0 -y wav -m audiotrack.wav

The arguments identify the input as /dev/dvd (-i), the type of input as DVD (-x), the title, chapter, and angle to encode, in this case being title 1, chapters (all) -1, and camera angle 1 (-T), the audio track is track 0 (-a), the output format is wav (-y) and the output filename is track20.wav (-m)

To rip the whole thing don't specify any chapters.. or replace the -1 with the number of the chapter you want.. really simple..

modify to suit the location of transcode and the disk drive.

 

You mention Audacity to edit the ripped tracks. The guide mentions Goldwave as the editor. Which one works the best ?

 

Audacity-FREE, excellent.
Goldwave-??$$$, don't know.

 

Thanks, i'm going to try Audacity. I would assume there is a guide in the "Guide" section that i could put to use.

Also do i really need AC3Filter installed if i'm using Audacity. If not i would like to uninstall it.

 

No, just install Audacity with ffmpeg plug-in:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg