How do I rip background music from a DVD?
 

There's some wonderful background music in some movies that never become available on the official soundtracks, and are therefore of no commercial value.

My computer came with a pre-installed Nero Burning ROM suite v.6.6.0.5 which includes a free trial for ripping 30 audio files for free from an audio CDROM. Nero is also a good program (I'm told) for video DVD work in general. But how do I use Nero (or any other good program) to rip music from a DVD?

Thanks.

Buy a mac & I could tell you in private. But be careful of your posting so it doesn't breach the forum rules copyright rule. Forum Rules (click here)

Thanks for the heads up. I was referring to some very old movies made in the late '40s and early '50s, like "The Third Man" (1949), so I didn't think there was any copyright in them anymore. In Canada at least (where I am), artistic works over 50 years old are in the public domain.

Can you help me this far: Is Nero the right tool to use?

I bought the Third man dvd for my father. I watched it & was a good movie.

I'm not the one to ask about windows programs for that purpose. Are you trying to extract from dvd or from a downlded video file? If from dvd, then you'll probably need an extraction tool to by-pass the copy protection which stops you copying to your computer.

Thanks for answering. I'm a classical music fan, and back in those days they hired classical composers to do movie scores: Aaron Copeland, Alfred Newman and Stephen Sondheim, to name a few.

It would be helpful to know how to extract the music from a downloaded video file of an old movie.

I'm glad you liked "The Third Man" too.

:)

To find such tools, here's a good place to start http://www.videohelp.com/
There's also a search option here to search exactly for what you're after http://www.videohelp.com/tools
BTW some of the tools are freeware, some donateware, some shareware, some commercial.

Nero does have that feature in Nero Vision when you choose make a DVD there is a option to record the audio. But unfortunately I have never used it so I wont be able to help you there other than to tell you it is in the edit screen.

If no-one can help you out here, try the Nero support site:)
http://www.nero.com/eng/Support.html

(OMG I'm in Bearshare. What am I doing in Bearshare?)

The same thing you do every where else Helping :)

I can help you!
 

I have thought of a solution. Try to get a program called DVD Decrypter (it has being banned, I think, so it might take a while to find on the web), use this to remove the css (copy Wright code thingy) from the DVD while ripping it to the hard drive. This should take no more than about 15 minutes max. Now that the css has being removed you should be able to open it in many programs such as NERO where you can edit freely. If Nero is no good try opening the decrypted movie file in a video editing program such as ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO or ADOBE PREMIAIR then get rid of all the footage that does not contain the audio you want, then save as a sound file...DONE
Hope this jumble of words provides some help
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When you say "BACKGROUND MUSIC" are you wanting to get music but not dialouge? If this is the case you may not be able to do it, it will sound just like the dvd movie.

Also...The links that "Lord of the Rings's" provided are helpfull there is a lot of good information.

Hmm, I've been around for some time on another forum, 'afterdawn', (though I've only once posted there) which talks a lot about Nero. From what I've read there, the Nero support would be the last place you would like to ask for help. They are well known for being unsupportive, to say the least. since I'm not sure whether a link to another forum is appreciated here, I reckon to search for "afterdawn" and read their threads.......:cool: :D :cool:

The way I'd do it on the mac ... there's a few programs that can do the job. 1st step would be to extract the dvd contents to HDD. Then I'd use another program to separate (demux) the files -> separate the audio & video files. In which case you'll probably end up with several ac3 files. Or my utilities also have the option of extracting the audio & converting to AIFF. From there I can then use an audio editor to convert from 48 to 44.1 kHz. Then do as I wish such as convert to mp3 or whatever.

Wow! That's a whole bunch of good help and fine suggestions!

Thank you very much everyone, much appreciated. :)

I'll look into these and report back if I get anywhere.

One of the things I'll be doing is to try to figure out which is the method with the least number of steps. It's not that I'm lazy, but I don't want to devote tons of hours to doing this.

Thanks again, to each of you who posted.

What an amazing amount of expertise you've all gathered. Be Proud.

Bests

:)

Yeah, I'd love to find a way to extract only the music without the dialogue. But there are many fine bits of music on many old movies that are dialogue-free too.

there is no 'simple' way to do it...

as noted by LOTR, yur gonna have to rip the files to HDD, separate the audio from the video (demuxing), convert sample rate from 48 to 44.1, then locate the audio you want, edit out everything but that, then save to disc as an audio file...the manual editing of the source file is gonna be the biggest PITA

I think it is impossible to extract the music and not the dialogue...Any one know of a way to do it then tell me!

I thought perhaps you were wanting the main theme music at the beginning or end of the movie. Well ... you could try extracting as ac3 & that will extract into the various ac3 channels (each in separate file.) Then take the left & right since the speech (or much of it) will most likely be in the centre channel. But there's no guarantee that will be the case. But then you need a program that can open & convert ac3 files. I have on the mac. I believe I read recently there's equivalent ones for windows. Google ac3 conversion. But separating dialogue from music if necessary is well ... is it worth the effort. What parts include dialogue could be replaced with parts that don't but are identical music sections if by chance the music repeats. Sounds like a big job for little reward.

Good point LOTR, i myself have never needed to extract audio without dialogue and i dont think i will wver need to. I have never heard of ac3 so i am going to google it now!!!

Much obliged LOTR, for that helpful and well-researched post. :)

Yes, it does sound like a full-time job. I'd better take a pass, for now. Perhaps some new software will come along.