[wellylug] capturing audio from DVD

andrewtarr andrewtarr at webmails.com
Tue Jul 10 23:24:43 NZST 2007


I want to capture about 15 seconds of audio from a DVD. 
What I'd like
to be able to do is play the DVD, then press some kind of
'record'
button, and have the audio captured from that point on until
I press
'stop'.  I don't want to rip the entire DVD, I just need 15
seconds or
so. 

I've had a very brief look at dvdrip and other software, but
it all
seems either overly complex for what I want, or oriented to
ripping the
whole DVD.  I'll persevere with that if there are no easy
options, but
it occurs to me that there might be something I'm
overlooking. 

Someone suggested audacity, which seems like a good idea,
being able to
record whatever the soundcard is outputting, but it only
seems to want
to access /dev/dsp, which is in use when I'm playing a DVD
of course. 

I'm using Ubuntu Edgy on an oldish IBM thinkpad if that's of
any use. 

-A. 




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