There exists a utility mac3decode which will transcode the ac3 streams
to mp3, aiff, etc... I honestly don't remember where I found it,
however, I'd be glad to send it to you if you reply to me privately.
I probably found it as a result of a google search.
Thanks,
Steve
On Jan 13, 2008, at 2:13 AM, 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
