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Title: [Ripping Guide] DVD-Audio Discs (DVD-A)
Post by: RD James on March 22, 2019, 08:44:59 am
A guide to ripping DVD Audio discs using free tools.


Step 1. Determine that you actually have a DVD-A disc.

DVD-Audio discs are a special format of disc that contains audio-only tracks, encoded using Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP).
MLP requires a special decoder, which is not supported by Media Center or most other players.
 
To determine whether the disc you are trying to rip is DVD-A, or a regular DVD video disc, open its AUDIO_TS folder.
If there is no AUDIO_TS folder, or the AUDIO_TS folder is empty, it's not a DVD-A disc.
 
If it's a DVD-A disc it will look something like this:
(https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=119956.0;attach=30499;image)

If it is a DVD-A disc, continue with this guide.
If it is not a DVD-A disc, you want this guide for ripping Music DVDs to audio tracks: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,119957.0.html


Step 2. Installing and configuring the software.

After confirming that it is a DVD-A disc, you need to download the required software.
You will need Foobar2000: http://www.foobar2000.org/download
And the DVD-A decoder component: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdadecoder/files/foo_input_dvda/

With Foobar2000 installed, open it and go to File > Preferences > Components, and install the DVD-A decoder component from there.
With the DVD-A decoder installed, open the preferences window again and navigate to Tools > DVD-Audio.
I recommend that you enable the "do not load stereo downmixes" option. If you only want to rip stereo tracks, you can set that as well.
(https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=119956.0;attach=30501;image)


Step 3. Rip the disc.

File > Add Files > AUDIO_TS.IFO will add the DVD-A tracks to the playlist in Foobar2000.
Depending on the disc, there may not be much if any metadata - the disc I used as a test imported like this:
(https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=119956.0;attach=30503;image)

Tracks are named in their encoded format:

Select the tracks you want to rip, right-click the selection and use Convert > [..]
Select FLAC as the Output Format, with the output bit depth set to "Auto" and dither set to "lossy sources only".

Foobar2000 should convert your DVD-A tracks to FLAC, ready to be imported to Media Center and tagged.
Title: Re: [Ripping Guide] DVD-Audio Discs (DVD-A)
Post by: auroraaudio on October 01, 2020, 04:39:08 pm
Hi.  Thanks for the very nice instructions since finding info online to rip dvd-audio discs is difficult, to say the least.

I followed your instructions and everything worked fine until I initiated the convert process.  The following Converter Status Report presented itself:

11 out of 11 tracks converted with major problems.

Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65793
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.011
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65794
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.011
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65795
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.010
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65796
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.010
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65797
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.006
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65798
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.010
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65799
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.007
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65800
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.002
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65801
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.010
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65802
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.007
Source: "D:\AUDIO_TS\AUDIO_TS.IFO" / index: 65803
  Decoder produced garbage at 0:00.026

Do have any suggestions as to what might have gone wrong?

Thanks.
Title: Re: [Ripping Guide] DVD-Audio Discs (DVD-A)
Post by: cupboy on January 22, 2022, 02:02:06 am
I got the same result. Anyone ever figure out how to make it work?
Title: Re: [Ripping Guide] DVD-Audio Discs (DVD-A)
Post by: RangerOne on March 07, 2022, 01:37:41 am
Quote from: cupboy on January 22, 2022, 02:02:06 am
I got the same result. Anyone ever figure out how to make it work?

I tried the guide and had the same problem. Just found out that converting the tracks one by one works, it doesn't if you do a multiple selection for batch-converting.