Oooh. Thanks for this info.
Can you also advise how to extract tunes from a commercial DVD Video? I have a wonderful "1GiantLeap" DVD with wonderful mixes not on the CD. It would be nice to have some of them more portable.
Not hard - do a quick search for a DVD extractor - DVD extractor is one at
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/alternative_platforms/mac_software/dvd_extractor.cfm
Although if you live in the US, you're not technically supposed to download it, due to some copyright stuff. Hooray for Australia. But back to the topic - if somehow you acquire this program, you drop your DVD in and locate the title --> chapter that you want to extract, tell it to demux 'private' (audio) streams, and extract away. Might take a few tries until you find the track you want, but these things happen.
When it extracts a pcm file, it'll just be a raw audio stream, you need a program that will import them, and they'll be 48 kHz/16 bit/Stereo, you'll have to downsample it to 44.1 kHz to go to CD. I used SonicWorx PowerBundle and did all this on a G4 Yikes, but there must be some free software out there that lets you specify an aribitary sampling rate. I know that Bias Peak does (which has a downloadable LE version), but I can't remember if it lets you open a raw audio stream.
As for decoding an AC3 file, i'm not sure how that's done - all the music DVD's I've ever ripped have had an Linear PCM stream, most do because of the sound quality issue. Here's a link to a decoder, though -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac3dec
I'll get out of your way now, I'll see you later
Cheers, Evan.
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