DVD to wav?

[hazed-]

ok guys i got a fantastic DVD. Listen to this list of aircraft and then realise that each and every one of these aircraft are shown taxying then taking off.

The great thing is about 60% of these films has little or no commentary to spoil a possible recording, anyhow heres a list of the aircraft in the DVD:

Messerschmitt BF109
Focke wulf FW190
Messerschmitt me262
Polikarpov II6
FIAT g50
MC200
MC202
CURTIS hawk
CURTIS P40
CORSAIR
Thunderbolt P47
Lockheed lightning
Mustang
hawker hurricane
mosquito
spitfire

what a great list and what great rarely if ever seen before footage!
the DVD is 'fighters of World war II' from pegasus.

What i need is to capture the sounds as the dvd plays.I have PowerDVD for the movie to play and i have soundblasterlive! to do recordings with. I also have a video to tv output if that could help.

Ok anyone help me ? maybe suggest a programme i could use? maybe even a link to a download?

If you can ill record what i can and i promise ill post the sounds to anyone who helps and anyone willing to stick them up for others to download.

thanx all hope you can help me

[SKurj]

plug audio cables from any dvd player (not pc dvd player) into soundblaster live

Use Windows Sound recorder to record from line in....  simplest method.

I'm sure someone will speak up with a much more advanced and better method


SKurj

[Waffle]

Best way to do it is what skurj said.. that way you can index to the parts on DVD that you want to record.

Once its recorded, either saved in individual files for each plane, or if you cut / copy / paste , then you can edit.

I have a Nuendo rig that I use to edit / produce music, and in that I have all the denoisers / declickers, ect that you could need to dream off to clean up and edit the wav files once you have them transferred from DVD.

I edited Mitsu's tankgun sound, beacuse i thought it was too noisy on the reload. And I also have an ols airraid / tornado siren sound that I cleaned up. It's sound pretty good. will post those so you can listen

[Waffle]

www.dangreve.com/AHSOUNDS.htm

[hazed-]

waffle great sounds there but i think you may need to double up the sound for your M2 sounds.

As it is now the amount of sounds played doesnt quite match the rate of fire of the gun. I think mitsu used a 'bang bang' sound rather than a 'bang' so that it matched the guns fire rate.

Its easily changed but worth noting.

[Waffle]

Actually, I believe in the p51, you have to rename or duplicate into 4 - 5 files i believe.

I think they are named:
m2
m2_2
m2_3
m2_4
m2_5


Anyway - I went ahead and posted to the link in previous post.
I added 5db of volume and changed the eq a littlle bit for each round for seperation. Try relacing those in the 51 and see what you think. i need to listen to the individual sounds on an m3 to see about timing.

Waffle

[FT_Animal]

IF YOU HAVE A DVD HOME DECK.
Try the following…
You are probably going to need a stereo (2 connector) RCA to 1/8” stereo or mono adapter..

The sound card should have a “Line In” or “Aux In” socket on it.
Read the manual and find out exactly what and where it is

The input is most important because that’s where all your quality of your work is going to start. Don’t use a stereo 1/8” if the socket is mono 1/8”. Don’t ever let the input peak out\Clip (distort) so run the input just a tad low so the big peaks or low-end (bass) don’t pork the input. Test run it a few times on the loudest files. You can make up the volume later during editing. You can do all kinds of things with a low volume file, you can’t do crap with one that is distorted right out of the box. You should be able to enable this socket in Windows “Volume Control”.

Once you get connected check Windows “Volume Control”  “Recording” properties and see if it offers a “What U Hear” fader or input. If so, enable this and balance the volume with the volume of the “Line In” or “Aux In”, what ever it was you used. These same settings should work just as well with a PC mounted DVD. Either way the end result is to record in the “What U Hear” mode.

You can use Windows Recorder, but use something else if it’s available. Sound Blaster usually offers a pretty darn good Recording device in their software.

Play the DVD and hit Record button. Do them one at a time. Save them to 16-bit Stereo (44100) if you can, if not 16-bit mono (44100). You want to keep the digital quality up as much as possible during editing. Then you can always convert them to the workable 16-bit mono (44100). I think 22050 works as well. Just remember the lower you go the, worse then end result quality will be. 1mb files still load fast.

I am very interested in getting some copies of these files. ;-)

[hazed-]

thanks.

Ok the good new is i have a lot of top quality stereo equiptment and soundblaster live! and also a onboard dolby 5.1 soundchip.

I have a technics stereo(£700) with gold plated connectors which cost well over £50 and are superb quality. I could use some of these to connect my DVD to my computer but it will be hard to get my computer close enough to the for the leads to reach!

I have a sony DVD player for my TV which has all the connectors for sounds so maybe ill play the DVD in that and connect that to my computer(what a nightmare that will be lol). Then ill just record all i can in the best quality i can.

If im successfull ill let you know, thnx for the tips.

[hazed-]

ok i played sounds through home DVD to the soundblaster but although the sounds come through they have a distorted sound as in it sounds like its playing so loud its distrupted. I tried to put the connector into the aux in socket but it didnt work so i had to put it into the microphone socket.

I tried lowering the microphone volume but for some strange reason it keeps automatically adjusting it no matter if i manually lower it it keeps going back up and again sounding distorted.

Is there a way to stop this automatic adjustment? Im using soundgadget pro to record but it just seems to use windows recording levels so thats no good.

should i load in soundblasters recording software? ill try it but it doesnt look good. The amount of small snippets of sounds we could use is great. bits of engine sounds between the commentary are GREAT!!!

especially the taxying sounds for engines! and the fly by stuff could be great if i can clean them up a bit , maybe somehow remove some of the mess and lower the base line ? does soundblaster do all this sort of thing?

please let me know how you clean up sounds , software you use etc and any tips.

[Waffle]

On you soundblaster settings .....under "control panel" then "Audio" setting.....then goto  "advanced" and Select "line in" in the check box in the mixer window.

The distortion sounds as if you hitting a preamp and it's boosting the signal right now. If theres a physical level control turn that down. if you are using the mic input


 
"Control panel" - "
Sounds and Audio devices" -
then "Advanced" under device volume
then Options in the pull down menu
Select "line in"