Hi. I just tried a program called mac3dec. Not sure if it is the
same one you're talking about or not. I didn't think it was going to
work at all because it said it ran in either classic or carbon. It
started to run, and I was able to start it converting the file, but at
some point it aborts, and I have no idea way. There's a dialog that
comes up that VO can't see at all, which really isn't a surprise being
it's a carbon app. But if what you have is not the same program, I'd
love to know.
Darcy
On 14-Jan-08, at 12:09 AM, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:
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
