[Robster1958]

i want to create a .wav file of a short portion of a DVD movie.

i was thinking of just turning up the audio (while playing the movie on my iBook) and using the built-in mike on my TiBook.

or linking my iBook and TiBook via firewire..and doing...something.

any elegant way to do this?

thanks.

[James Hatts]

You could capture the audio with AudioHijack - see www.rogueamoeba.com

Highly reccommended - it's an excellent app.

[bbales]

Funny -- I was just wondering this same thing yesterday, and in fact came to this forum to browse and find out!

Can't you just use some sort of cable, linking the home stereo to a PB? (I guess I'm thinking that our home system has the stereo linked to the DVD player, etc.)

I have no knowledge of this whole procedure, so if it's a dumb question, I'm sorry.

[bbales]

Oh -- and actually what I wanted to do was grab a song at the end of a movie and turn it into an MP3 (or actually, anything I could listen to in itunes and burn). I looked for the song at the store, but it's not there...

[KaosDG]

You could do this by decrypting the vob into a regular mpeg-2, and then splitting the streams.
(sorry, I only know how to do it on Windows, i don't use my mac for ripping, only authoring )

on Windows there is software called tmpgenc (check out www.dvdrhelp.com for thelink to it, it has lots of good tutorials and info too)

You can use that to split off the audio, and it lets you select the range you want also.

I'm fairly sure there HAS to be a mac equivalet, if not OSX specific than a Linux/BSD type that could be compiled on OSX.

[Mark E]

the easiest and quickest ways:

a) use audio hijack, as seen above.

2) play the DVD on your ibook (or dvd player, stereo, whatever), connect a cable from the sound output port to the line-in on the powerbook, and record with your chosen audio recorder software.

it'll take.. ooh, about.. 3 minutes? (or whatever the length of your song is), compared to ages spent ripping, converting, etc etc.

[bbales]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.
Beth