Our local cable TV has a community bulletin board channel that uses a
DVD player to broadcast local government meetings. Our office houses
the equipment for the local cable TV for this channel. We have
permission to use the DVD for websites that we manage. I am getting
familiar with using HandBrake to turn the DVD content into something
that QuickTime Pro can read.
I want to be able to extract the audio from the DVD and create an MP3
that folks can access from our websites. One process that I use is to
create an mp4 file from the DVD using HandBrake, then open the mp4 in
QuickTime and export the audio from there. Is there a quicker way of
getting to the audio besides HandBrake? Seems like a lot of encoding
work when all I want is the audio. The file would be too big if I
included the video as well.
You could use WireTap Studio from Ambrosia Software (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/), it’s not free, costs $69.00, but is a fantastic utility which can record audio from any application directly.
I originally owned WireTap Pro, but upgraded to WireTap Studio as soon as it became available. I have since used it over and over for recording audio only from live TV and also from radio shows through RealPlayer. It has the advantage of a built in editor, and a library so you can keep track of all your recordings.
But by using Wiretap ($69) and AudioHijack ($32) you have to sit there and watch the whole thing and if it skips you have to start all over.
I’d say go the MacTheRipper way and it’s super fast at extracting it and getting what you need converted, again quickly to MP3 or whatever sound type, in FFMPEGX.