I remember reading a long time ago how you can rip the audio (music) from a DVD and convert it to a usable/readable format.
I can't find that article any more. Can anybody help me?
Inspect DVD with following command
pg@pipoTower: ~$ tcprobe -i /dev/sr0
look for line where chapters is like following:
[dvd_reader.c] DVD title 1/1: 17 chapter(s), 1 angle(s), title set 1
Rip all titles to mp3 where for example {1..17} is the number of chapters of your dvd
for i in {1..17};do
transcode -x null,dvd -y null,tcaud -i /dev/sr0 -T 1,$i,1 -a 0 -E 44100,16,2 --lame_preset medium -m ~/tmp/yourDestinationMp3File_chapter${i}.mp3;
done
For details of command:
DVD title 1/11: 3 chapter(s), 1 angle(s), title set 1
? Thank you.
Apr 19, 2015 at 5:23
Here's what you're looking for: Handbrake.
It's a fairly useful tool for what you're trying to do. To install, add the ppa ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
to your software sources (here's how to do that) and install handbrake from the Software Center.
For a proper Ubuntu approach I'd suggest to have a look into ffmpeg (command line). Example:
ffmpeg -i infile.wmv -vn -acodec copy outfile.wma
Or, if you want an MP3 file:
ffmpeg -i infile.avi -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192 -f mp3 outfile.mp3
Also there is another PPA software called Gnac; it's a GNOME software that uses the Gstreamer media framework and has a GUI.
Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gnac-team/+archive/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnac-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnac
Building on this answer and this post, I came with a similar solution for extracting uncompressed WAV files. Use tcprobe -i /dev/sr0
or lsdvd
to determine the DVD title with the chapters of interest, then (assuming 17 chapters in title 1):
for i in {1..17};do
transcode -i /dev/sr0 -x dvd -T 1,$i,1 -a 0 -y wav -m /tmp/track${i}.wav
done
In my case this results in WAV files containing lpcm 16bit 48kHz 2Ch
, same as the tracks on the DVD. You can check the resulting files using mediainfo
.
Use VLC's "open media" menu option to open the DVD, set the title to the one you want (you may have to explore the DVD by actually starting to view it, to get the title number).
Then instead of telling VLC to play it, tell it to stream it to a file.
Works great - you may have to use audacity to trim the results, as VLC will go back to the menu after playing the title you selected... so you'll get the menu track on infinite repeat at the end of your file :)
Since transcode
is not available as a package anymore in recent Ubuntu releases, some older answers don't work anymore. Here's an alternative solution using mplayer
and ffmpeg
:
First, make sure to install mplayer and ffmpeg:
sudo apt install mplayer ffmpeg
Then, dump the DVD's content using mplayer:
mplayer dvd:// -dumpstream -dumpfile output.vob
Now, rip convert it to an audio file using ffmpeg (which will also omit the video content):
ffmpeg -i output.vob -vn -f mp3 output.mp3
If your DVD has multiple chapters and you want to keep this structure, start by checking the chapters using mplayer:
mplayer -identify dvd://
Then, dump each chapter (in this example, chapter 1 - 5):
for i in {1..5}; do
mplayer dvd:// -chapter $i-$i -dumpstream -dumpfile $i.vob;
done
Now, convert all of them again
for i in *.vob; do
ffmpeg -i $i -vn -f mp3 ${i/vob/mp3};
done
sudo apt-get install abcde
abcde
Wait half an hour. Current directory contains one .ogg
track per file.
Similar question: What are some CD Ripping Programs you can use on Ubuntu?
abcde
doesn't seem to work with DVDs. Fails with [WARNING] something went wrong while querying the CD... Maybe a DATA CD?
.
Although the problem has been resolved, I still want to share another great Linux DVD ripping freeware I love – AcidRIP. AcidRIP is small and efficient, and allows me to transcode my DVDs just one button click.