Hi
Actually, VLC is capable of writing a wave file via one of its output
modules. To set it up:
• Go into VLC preferences, expand audio, then expand output modules
• Under output modules, highlight "file," and set up your parameters.
Leave the audio format on S16, and set the output channels to 2, then
set the name and location of the output file. If you don't see some of
these settings, check the advanced checkbox to show them.
• Now, go back up to the output modules category and set the output
module to file. Start playing your AC3 file and you should get a wave
file. This works similar to the disk writer plugin of WinAMP, if
you're familiar with that.
Remember to set it back to default or "hal output" before you play any
files you don't want decoded.
You can now encode it with whatever you like, be it iTunes, lame, max,
etc.
hth
On Jan 12, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi everyone. Well, I think Mac the ripper might be a good solution
for ripping the audio from a dvd. You can have it just extract the
ac3 audio stream. I tested it on an episode of Saturday Night Live
which I believe was 1 hour and twelve minutes in length. It took
just over 10 minutes to extract the file.
Now I have this ac3 file on my hard drive which vlc can play just
fine, but I want to convert it to either mp3 or aac so that it takes
up less space, and so that I can put it on my ipod. I did find an
ac3 codec for quicktime. Once I installed that, the file would play
in quicktime player. I was hoping it would play in itunes as well,
so that I could use itunes to transcode the file, but no such luck.
Itunes won't touch the file.
I'm thinking that quicktime pro could convert the file, but I'd like
to know for sure before plunking down the $37 Canadian that Apple
wants for quicktime pro. I don't know if any of you have quicktime
pro or not, but for those who do, I have a question. Can I safely
assume that if QT can play a file type, that it could convert that
file to another type?
Alternatively, does anyone know of another way to convert ac3 files
in to something else?
Darcy
