On Mon 29 May 2017 at 21:38:53 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 09:25:53PM +0200, hob...@poukram.net wrote: > > Hello, > > > > in the past I used a nice little script to rip the audio part of video > > dvds (mostly concerts) to mp3 files. > > > > That script used the tool transcode, here is the main line: > > > > for i in {1..$NUM}; do transcode -x null,dvd -y null,tcaud -i $DEVICE -T > > $TITLE,$i,$ANGLE -a $AUDIO --lame_preset standard -E 44100,16,2 -m > > $NOM$i.mp3; done > > > > So it ripped the audio part of each chapter of the main title, and > > converted it to mp3 files. > > > > But transcode has been removed from debian because «replacements exist»: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=817199 > > > > I have searched a lot, but I can't find a tool to just rip the audio > > part of dvd chapters. ffmpeg is more than capable to do the encoding > > part, but it lacks dvd ripping capabilities. HandbrakeCli could be a > > contender, but it absolutely wants to rip and encode video, which in my > > case is a waste of ressources. > > You can try (caution: untested!) something like > > ffmpeg -i <input file> -vn -acodec copy <output file> > > This would leave the audio format unchanged. By playing with the > "-acodec copy" you can change the output audio format. > > I'm sure other programs, like mplayer are also capable to do the > trick.
I successfully used vobcopy and then your command with output.ac3 as <output file>. -- Brian.