DVD-A extracting WAV

Posted by: Dan43 on 16 March 2013

Through DVD Audio Extractor I see some files are not showing at 2ch and 6ch, but as 6ch only? Queen A Night at the Opera shows one whole track as Chapter 01 for 2ch but for 6ch has all the individual tracks.

Has anyone found a DVD software that can see all the available tracks, can pull in the metadata, and allow for the WAV files as 96/24 stereo 2ch to be ripped?

Cheers

Dan43

Posted on: 16 March 2013 by Aleg

Dan

 

You can extract 5.1 and convert it to 2-ch using dBPoweramp.

probably won't sound as good as a properly mastered 2-ch, because you don't know what matrix has been used in the 5.1.

 

But if the alternative is not to have it at all ..... i would just do it.

 

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Aleg

Posted on: 16 March 2013 by Dan43

Thanks Aleg,

DVD Audio Extractor allows you to select a Stereo output, but the Queen disc is cleary missing huge amounts of information, its literally just drums and vocal, all guitars etc are missing.

It is an odd one as some DVD-A discs don't have the stereo mix 2.1 on there, and if you only have the 5.1 version then it doesn't quite work.

Also the single track 5.1 seems odd.

Cheers

Dan43

Posted on: 16 March 2013 by KRM

Hi Dan,

 

Have you tried using DVD AE to search the file structure of the DVD? There are three search options at the top of the screen. Try the second one, select video folder and search again. The app default setting is to search the audio folder. 

 

Keith

Posted on: 17 March 2013 by Aleg
Originally Posted by Dan43:

Thanks Aleg,

DVD Audio Extractor allows you to select a Stereo output, but the Queen disc is cleary missing huge amounts of information, its literally just drums and vocal, all guitars etc are missing.

It is an odd one as some DVD-A discs don't have the stereo mix 2.1 on there, and if you only have the 5.1 version then it doesn't quite work.

Also the single track 5.1 seems odd.

Cheers

Dan43

Hi Dan

 

i don't know how DVDAE converts a 5.1 to 2.0, but i would use some higher grade software for that conversion. Preferably one that has put some effort in defining a proper matrix (the mixing of parts of the six channels into the newly created 2 channels). I never managed to go get a really good 6-ch to 2-ch conversion, but never as bad that whole instrument sections got lost.

 

but as KRM says check to other (video) directories for the missing 2-channel tracks.

Audio can be stored in the audio section as .aob files, but also be part of the video section as .vob files. So check them both.

Posted on: 17 March 2013 by Dan43

Hi Aleg,

Yes the Audio_TS and Video_TS do have both forms of audio, in this case Audio is 5.1 96/24 the Video has 5.1 48/24, which confuses me?

I found DVD Explorer, which beta 3 ended in 2008, but it does a great job of taking 5.1 and downmixing to 2.1, it works very well.

The only downside is I have the WAV files but zero artist/song/album info/metadata. Downloaded Illustrate/dbPoweramp's  PerfectTunes, but still no real way I can see of once ripping a WAV how to find the album metadata online via a database, they all seem locked to other software, as Gracenote is to iTunes.

Cheers

Dan43