[MPlayer-users] dump dvd audio -> mp3

[Aaron Peterson]

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:15:20PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>> Aaron Peterson wrote:
>>
>> >How might I go about dumping just the audio from a dvd to a nice vbr
>> >mp3 with mplayer?  or can I do that?
>>
>> You cannot do that directly, no.
>>
>> The simplest way to do it is
>>
>> ==
>> mplayer <options to play the DVD> -ao pcm -aofile <filename>.wav
>> ==
>>
>> and then encode the resulting WAV file with an MP3 encoder of your
>> choice. This is not necessarily the ideal way of doing it, but it will
>> get the job done.
>>
>>
>> A more complicated way of doing it would be something like
>>
>> ==
>> mencoder <options to play the DVD> -oac mp3 -ovc <anything> -o
>> <filename>.avi
>> ==
>>
>> and then
>>
>> ==
>> mplayer -dumpaudio <filename>.avi -dumpfile <filename>.mp3
>> ==
>>
>> but I'm not nearly so sure that that will produce a usable file, and in
>> any case it will either eat up gobs of disk space (if you use -ovc copy)
>> or take a rather long time (if you use any other -ovc value, requiring
>> MEncoder to transcode the video). It may produce a somewhat
>> higher-quality final product, because I think there's one fewer
>> transcode step for the audio involved, but that's about its only
>> advantage AFAIK.
>
> The best way to use mencoder is:
>
> mencoder -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame -lameopts <your mp3 encoding options>
> -o <filename>.avi
> and then
> mplayer -dumpaudio <filename>.avi -dumpfile <filename>.mp3
>
> With -ovc frameno no video is dumped/encoded.
> <filename>.avi just contains the audio stream (mp3).
>
> Giacomo

Thanks for the help guys :-)