HowTo: Rip DVD audio to mp3 or ogg

[lwr]

I found this the other day, after much searching on Google.
First thing you need to do is make sure you have lsdvd and transcode installed:

sudo apt-get install lsdvd transcode

Then do

lsdvd

to find the track information, and the longest track (which will probably be what you want.
To rip to ogg:

transcode -i /dev/dvd -x dvd -T a,b,1 -a 0 -y ogg -m track-a.ogg

where a is replaced with the number of the title you want to rip from, and b is replaced with the track number. The track-a.ogg can be replaced with whatever you want to call the track, e.g. "/home/user/music/artist/album/track name.ogg", but make sure the directory already exists.
Similarly with mp3:

transcode -i /dev/dvd -x dvd -T a,b,1 -a 0 -y raw -m track-a.mp3

I hope this is useful to others; I know I couldn't do without it. Perhaps someone with more knowledge about these things than I can shed some light on what other options there are.

Luke

[Poptart]

Thanks so much, this was so helpful to me. I had to rip an audio portion of an old film for a stage performance, and I knew the forums would come through!

[sirmrmatt]

Wow! Good stuff...would be nice to be able to somehow specify exactly what seconds to record, and then also tell it to continue on with adjacent chapters, if possible. I had two songs I needed which jumped to the next chapters, and so I had to "sew" them back together in Audacity.

Any ideas on this?

- Matt

[tonique]

Wow! Good stuff...would be nice to be able to somehow specify exactly what seconds to record, and then also tell it to continue on with adjacent chapters, if possible. I had two songs I needed which jumped to the next chapters, and so I had to "sew" them back together in Audacity.

Hopefully this will still be of some use... The manpage for transcode tells

-T t[,c[,a]]
        select DVD title[,chapter[,angle]] [1,1,1]. Only a single chapter
        is transcoded. Use -T 1,-1 to trancode all chapters in a row. You
        can even specify chapter ranges.

which means that if you use the option

-T title,a-b

in the command line, you get chapters from a to b in the same file.

The manpage tells also

       -c f1-f2[,f3-f4[, ... ] ]
              encode  only  frames  f1-f2 [and f3-f4]. Default is to encode all
              available frames.  Use  this  and  you’ll  get  statistics  about
              remaining  encoding  time.  The f[N] parameters may also be time‐
              codes in the HH:MM:SS.FRAME format. Example:
              -c 500-0:5:01,:10:20-1:18:02.1

                     Will encode only from frame 500 to 5 minutes and 1  second
                     and  from  10 min, 20 sec to 1 hour, 18 min, 2 sec and one
                     frame.

              Note that transcode starts counting frames at 0 and excludes  the
              last frame specified. That means that "-c 0-100" will encoded 100
              frames starting at frame 0 up to frame 99

HTH. :>

[sirmrmatt]

Sweet!

Very nice. Wish I'd had this before, but oh well!

Thanks for contributing to the community like this, I know I certainly appreciate it, even if just for future reference.

Best,
Matt

[dfm21]

Error:
Ogg encoding throws this error:

[transcode] warning : (encoder.c) video codec not supported by export module
[transcode] warning : failed to init export modules
[transcode] critical: plug-in initialization failed

Solution:

transcode -i /dev/dvd -x dvd -T 1,-1 -a 0 -y null,ogg -m audiotrack.ogg

Note the

-y null,ogg

argument!
Found it here.

Nice tutorial. Thanks!

[blackcougar]

thanks it works a treat on gutsy

[dragonfixed]

I have converted mp3 to cda and the cd pops and skips when i burn with nero on linux. The dvd is protected. Is this the reason why the music skips

[atomicpc]

Thanks for the find. I've spent countless hours and at least 5 today on my old 56k downloading different approches just to get a 4 sercond clip off a DVD to use as a message tone. After trying the hard way for so long it's ironic that it was this easy.

[isecore]

I tried this since I also want to extract a bit of audio from a DVD, but lsdvd fails with a long list of errors looking kinda like this:

*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:778 ***
*** for pgc->cell_position_offset == 0 ***


*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:776 ***
*** for pgc->program_map_offset == 0 ***


*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:777 ***
*** for pgc->cell_playback_offset == 0 ***


*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:778 ***
*** for pgc->cell_position_offset == 0 ***


*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:776 ***
*** for pgc->program_map_offset == 0 ***


*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:777 ***
*** for pgc->cell_playback_offset == 0 ***


*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:778 ***
*** for pgc->cell_position_offset == 0 ***


*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:776 ***
*** for pgc->program_map_offset == 0 ***


*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:777 ***
*** for pgc->cell_playback_offset == 0 ***


*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:778 ***
*** for pgc->cell_position_offset == 0 ***

Can't open ifo 15!

Same goes for when I try to transcode something. Long list of errors. Anyone know why this is so? I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy, latest Medibuntu and such.

Thanks!