[SOLVED][IMPROVED] vob2wav ???

[jankushka]

alright.
i have these wonderful audio dvds by porcupine tree: "in absentia" and "deadwing".
the best rock music published since pink floyd's final cut.
anyway...
anyone knows how i rip those vob files into wavs?
both discs have both 5.1 dts and 2.0 pcm.
thanks a bunch in advance.

ps:
my googleing only yields windoze tools... >

[Rog131]

Re: vob 2 wav

Does KaudioCreator (cd ripper) work with audio dvd's ?

[SheeEttin]

Re: vob 2 wav

Hmm... I think VOBs are audio/video. To confirm this, if you put it in a DVD player, you'll get more than just music, e.g. menus, video...

If you're okay with a command-line tool, try the dvdrip package.

[jankushka]

Re: vob 2 wav

Does KaudioCreator (cd ripper) work with audio dvd's ?

kaudiocreator is for audio cd only.
btw, if you're still using kaudiocreator to rip your cds, then you might want to take a look at k3b.
a lot faster and a lot more flexible.
cheers.

[jankushka]

Re: vob 2 wav

If you're okay with a command-line tool, try the dvdrip package.

yeah.
no probs with command line.
i'll have a go over the week-end.
cheers.

[jankushka]

Re: [SOLVED] vob2wav

answer.
you use the following command:

transcode -i inputfile.vob -o outpufile.wav -x null,vob -y null,wav -e 44000

ps:
my googleing only yields windoze tools... >

but, of course, there's nothing you do with windoze that you can't do (better/faster/easier) with linux... 8)

[jankushka]

Re: [SOLVED][IMPROVED] vob2wav

this will hopefully avoid others the pains i had to go through to
rip these audio dvds in an acceptable way.

now, simply transcoding the vob files on the dvd, will not work properly.
in my case, the decodiing process rendered a chopped wav file.
meaning that the last couple of songs were not ripped and one got ripped only partially.

so, i used vobcopy to get organized vob files off of the dvd, first.
vobcopy understands the titles/chapters/angles/... structure of the dvd and creates a single vob file for title:

vobcopy -l -o .

-l is for large files support (> 2gb)
-o designates the output directory
-n (in case it was needed) allows to specify a dvd title other than default (i.e. #1).

one of my audio dvds had everything in title #1 (15 songs).
with the other, i had to get title #2 off it, as well (9 songs in title #1 and 3 songs in title #2).

once i got my organized vob files off of the dvd, i then transcoded them into wavs
with transcode:

transcode -i inputfile.vob -o outpufile.wav -x null,vob -y null,wav -e 44100

-i is the input vob file (created by vobcopy, in this case)
-o is the output wav file
-x specifies the format of the video/audio input streams (video is not of interest here, hence...null, audio is vob)
-y specifies the format of the video/audio output streams (video is null, audio is wav)
-e is the sampling rate

that's it.
the only problem with all this is that you won't get songs in separate files.
utilities to split wavs based on the silence gaps are available, though, and might be tried.

you could also specify lame as an output audio format, to get mp3 directly.

repositories:
vobcopy is in the universe section
transcode is in multiverse

hth