Extract / rip audio from a DVD: No Success

[HJStern]

With the help of VLC 1.0.3 I would like to extract audio from a DVD (the DVD has some nice songs) and ultimately want to put them on an audio CD. I do not know much about VLC and video files but apart from that I would say my computer knowledge is good.

I think I should have succeeded in using Media (Menu) \ Convert/Save …
in the new Window that opens: Media (specifying the drive letter of the DVD drive) \ Convert/Save
in the new Window that opens: Destination: specifying the name of the destination file using the respective file extension (either .flac, .mp4, or .mp3). Settings: Audio, either flac, mp4 or mp3 (nothing else checked). Start
The DVD drive start to work a little but stops after checking two or three positions on the the disk, VLC says “streaming” on the lower left corner, no video shows up, the play bottom shows “pause” (so the video should play), the right hand corner shows 00:00/00:00 with no progress. The file that is generated is only 158 KB but on playing does not contain any sound (except for maybe silence).

What am I doing wrong, what is wrong? Thanx for your help,
HJStern


Background information:
The DVD is in three languages, when I start playing the DVD, I am asked to choose one of the three, then a new menu shows up, asking "Play", "Scene Selection", ....
WinXP, Home, SP3, all current updates.


To the board admin: I don't know if this is a general VLC or a Windows problem, you may move it as you wish

[HJStern]

Already almost 300 views, and no answer yet.

Is there anybody who can help me solve the problem?

Thank you for your support
HJStern

[Arite]

Try streaming the DVD with no menus (i.e. using dvdsimple://). So when selecting DVD as the source check "No DVD menus".

Arite.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

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vlc dvdsimple:// ---no-sout-video --no-sout-spu --sout "#std{dst=dvd.mpg,mux=raw,access=file}"

[Androktasie]

I think there might be more to this than proper command line or GUI options being set. Today I was asked by a friend to rip the audio from a short DVD to an MP3 for him, and I could not do this using VLC 1.0.5 stable under Windows. This is the command I used:

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C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC>vlc.exe "dvdsimple://X:\blah\VIDEO_TS" :no-video :sout=#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128}:std{access=file,mux=dummy,dst="E:\blah.mp3"}

The resulting file has an outrageous file size, sounds garbled, and likes to skip and rebuffer frequently. This also happens if I use the GUI to convert using the Audio - MP3 profile. Using a VIDEO_TS folder or an AVI as the input source makes no difference.

However, an older 0.8.6c build I had lying around works fine if I feed it the same command line options. I'm not sure which component is broken here or at what build this started occurring, so I'm probably not the best person to file a trac report for this, and that's assuming I'm not somehow screwing things up. For what it's worth the latest 1.0.6 nightly also exhibits the same issue.