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RE: Ripping music from DVD/Bluray/HDDVD

Posted by Christine Tham (R) on June 9, 2010 at 20:27:57

In Reply to: RE: Ripping music from DVD/Bluray/HDDVD posted by breadvan on June 9, 2010 at 19:20:16:

1. Load disc, wait for AnyDVD to finish scanning
2. On XP, use AnyDVD to copy disc folder to your hard drive. On vista, you can access the files directly on the optical drive so skip this skep.
3. Run eact3to on the bluray folder (ie. if your optical drive is drive D: just run "eac3to d:\" - it will tell you how many title sets, what's in each title etc.
4. Assume you want to rip the LPCM audio track, which is track #3 on the main title set (let's assume this is title set #1). Just run "eac3to d:\ 1) 3: output.wav"
5. running "eac3to d:\ 1) 1: chapters.txt" (the first "track") will give you the chapter points (as a text file).
6. Now edit in Sound Forge, insert markers where the chapter points are, then convert to regions, then split the file by regions.
7. If required, do post processing (sometimes the audio is mastered to a max of -6dBFS - you may want to increase volume by 6dB to compensate).
8. If you are ripping AC3 or DTS, you may want to dither the output (I use MBIT+ dithering with medium noise shaping) and convert from 24-bit to 16-bit (the extra bit are superfluous since this is a lossy track with less than 16-bit resolution).
9. Once you have individual .WAV for each chapter, convert them to FLAC using dbpoweramp, apply metadata using mp3tag, and you're done!
10. Downmixing 5.1 into 2 is a little bit more difficult, you need to extract the individual channels, then recombine them within Sound Forge. There are various downmix formulae you can apply - do not just add the channels - the levels will be wrong.

Note: make sure you have Nero 7 with the right plugins installed. Run "eac3to -test" to ensure eac3to can find the appropriate filters for decoding.

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