Is there a simple way to extract small clips of audio from a DVD ?
I found a program that converted the entire audio track into a .WAV but it was so big it crashed my sound editor, and took about 20 minutes to do the conversion.
I can’t figure out how to get Windows Sound Recorder to work in Vista to record DVDs, and asked that question last month and got 0 replies. Typically what I did in XP was play the movie, and use Sound Recorder to get the clips I wanted, but such functionality seems to be absent in Vista.
Try Audacity.
You can chop the track up into convenient bits and convert it to most popular compressed files (mp3, vorbis)
I use Audacity, too. Works fine on everything but my laptop, which somehow doesn’t know how to feed it’s outgoing sound through its own inputs.
Audacity will work if your sound card driver allows you to monitor the sound coming from the computer. This worked for me on my old PC with Win98 - the sound mixer had a setting for “monitor all” which caught the sound.
The driver on my current PC with XP doesn’t allow this, so I bought the program called Total Recorder. It’s not shareware, but it’s worth it to me. It works because it has its own driver. The demo version appears to be crippled, allowing only very short recordings. Maybe you could get by with that.
There are several ways to skin this cat - setting Audacity or some other sound recorder to record while you play the DVD will work, but this makes use of the ‘analogue hole’ and there will be a loss of quality - perhaps not noticeable.
DVDShrink allows you to extract a segment of footage, then you could used VirtualDubMod to extract the audio stream as a WAV file.
Someone blogged today about a program that seems to be exactly what you want. You can preview the dvd visually to set start and stop of the audio. And it’s free!