extracting audio from DVDs?

[cellio]

Dear LazyWeb,

I have one -- count it, one -- DVD from which I would like to extract the audio. Google leads me to many, many software offerings, some trustworthy; alas, the half-dozen I've tried so far all have built-in limits of 3 to 5 minutes for the free trial. If I were going to be doing this a lot I'd buy the software (as I have for other pieces of the great digitization project), but I really just want to do this once. I'd pay a small one-time-use fee if that were available. Because I only want to do this once, I'm not fussy about user interface and features -- if it does DVD in and WAV out without quality loss, I really don't care about anything else. Any suggestions?

(Clam Chowder, "Kosher", in case you're wondering. I want to be able to listen to it on my non-video-enabled iPod.)


Update: I ended up with a two-pass approach. HandBrake (recommended by some of you) turns DVDs into several other video formats, including AVI and MP4, but no audio-only formats (as documented). However, this free tool converts MP4 to MP3. Both of these have a batch mode, so I can just set 'em loose in turn. A small trial worked just fine, so now I've got the big job running. Thanks, everyone.

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Or you could record the output of the DVD player using Audacity () and export to WAV

[cellio]

Thanks. (Connecting the DVD player to the computer would require some dismantling, but Audacity sounds like a good tool to get on general principles.)

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Not the physical DVD player...whatever one that the computer uses. Audacity should be able to capture that audio while it's playing in the computer.

[cellio]

Oh, thanks. That would be much easier. (I've seen cases where a computer could listen on input jacks but not from its own drives, though it's been a while, so I thought that's what you meant.)