[MPlayer-users] Ripping DVD audio and using menu info

[Chris Phillips]

> I'm able to use mplayer to rip the audio from a DVD.  But the result is 
> not that convenient because I end up with single large files for each 
> title (yes, I know I can use -chapter to limit to a given chapter).  The 
> plan is to burn the audio to CDR for listening to just the audio.
> 
> I'm new to this process so I'm wondering if there's easier/better way to 
> rip audio.  Specifically, is there a way to (automatically) rip the 
> chapters into individual .wav files?  That way cdrecord could at least 
> have some track info.

You'd do better not to rip it, instead dump it using a wav writer output

mplayer dvd://1 -chapter 2 -ao pcm -aofile chapter_2.wav

and if you want to automatie this, you could use something like my program 
http://acidrip.thirtythreeandathird.net/lsdvd.html to find how many 
chapters a given track has, and use that to loop a shell script o your own 
choosing.
 
> I don't know the DVD format, but I'm also wondering if there's a way to 
> rip the audio in the sequence that the DVD would play in a DVD player.  
> Or if there's a way to create a table of contents from the dvd menu.
> Yes, I need to learn more about DVDs, but just looking for suggestions 
> or tools that might be available.


Chris