[MPlayer-users] Ripping DVD Audio

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:45:36AM -0800, Scott Baker wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I want to rip the DVD audio from a DVD directly to an MP3 file.  I've sort 
> of figured out how to do this via the documentation.
> 
> mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc frameno -o audio.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr=96
> 
> That creates an audio.avi file containing the audio stream(s) and NO video 
> streams.  I believe it should rip all the audio streams?  Is there a way to 

Nope, only one.

> make mencoder only rip ONE of the audio tracks (say the directors 
> commentary track) directly to an MP3 instead of an AVI without a video 
> stream?

mplayer -aid blah -dumpaudio

Then convert the dumped file from ac3 to mp3 with your favorite tools.

Rich