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Title: How do I rip DVD-Audio CDs? Is lossless possible?
Post by: pclausen on November 18, 2003, 06:14:06 pm

I picked up Eagles Hotel California on DVD-Audio.  Is there any way to rip this to my hard drive losslessly and have MC9 treat it like any other album in my collection?

If not, what about just being able to rip to 'lossless' WMA?

P.S. I'm just talking about the 2 channel tracks, not the multichannel ones.

Title: Re:How do I rip DVD-Audio CDs? Is lossless possible?
Post by: xen-uno on November 18, 2003, 06:37:36 pm

Currently, I don't think there is. Do a forum search at Hydrogen Audio (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?s=28242fdcabc909bc4d56318c932edaf6&act=portal)...or do some googling. You may have to loop Line Out into Line In or find some kind of "capturing" program. Ripping tracks out of DVD vobs is easy enough...but DVD-A is a different animal.

10^-27

Title: Re:How do I rip DVD-Audio CDs? Is lossless possible?
Post by: kiwi on November 18, 2003, 06:54:17 pm

Don't think that it's possible, short of getting an inexpensive DVD-A player and ripping out the i2s signals going to the dacs.  these could easily be converted to spdif and then broght into the computer.  

That said, you probably wouldn't save much space as DVD-A is already losslessly compressed on the disk using MLP (I believe.)

Now, for having a digital jukebox, it could be very cool.

But, you'd need TONS of storage space.

Kiwi

Title: Re:How do I rip DVD-Audio CDs? Is lossless possible?
Post by: pclausen on November 18, 2003, 08:17:52 pm

Thanks for the link to hydrogen audio.  Doesn't look like we'll be ripping the high quality DVD-A tracks with ease anytime soon...

Title: Re:How do I rip DVD-Audio CDs? Is lossless possible?
Post by: bspachman on November 18, 2003, 08:53:52 pm

There is a way to rip the DTS tracks from DVD-A discs and then encode them with APE to get some compression. I've used it on the Eagles disc as well as the Diana Krall "Live in Paris" DVD and the Blue Man Group DVD-A.

I can't remember the name of the apps I used, so if you're interested, I'll check out my jukebox to see if I can recreate the method.

Bear in mind, this will not be the high-resolution audio, but it will be a surround sound mix.

Best,
Brad

Title: Re:How do I rip DVD-Audio CDs? Is lossless possible?
Post by: kiwi on November 18, 2003, 09:38:49 pm

Also, why not just save the raw DTS.  I believe that it's compressed data anyway.  (I may be wrong on that, but that is my understanding)

kiwi

Title: Re:How do I rip DVD-Audio CDs? Is lossless possible?
Post by: MGD_King on November 18, 2003, 11:17:19 pm

What I do is just play the DVD and record it in another audio program, edit the beginning and ends of the tracks, and then save as an MP3. It's a simple process, just time consuming.