| Bill Jonas on Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:24:24 -0400 |
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:51:01AM -0400, Mitchell Maltenfort wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to save a section of my DVD's audio track as a wav > file I can edit? Thanks in advance. Unfortunately, this is illegal under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), as the disc is encrypted with the Content Scrambling System (CSS), which "effectively"[1] controls access to the copyrighted work, and the DMCA prohibits breaking such encryption. That said, there are tools out there which will allow you to view the audio/video content of such encrypted discs. (Not all DVDs are encrypted.) The most high-profile of these is DeCSS, the first such program, and which has also spawned several lawsuits. I have heard that there are better tools available, but I'm not familiar with them. I don't have a laptop with a DVD-ROM drive and my TV is larger than my computer and located in front of my couch, so I haven't had much interest in getting DVDs to work (which would include getting access to the video to make audio and/or video clips). A web search should serve you well if you go this route. Another way to go about this which is legal under U.S. law[2] would be to hook up the sound output from your DVD player or stereo system to the input of your sound card and record it that way. [1] "Effectively" is the word used in the DMCA, all jokes aside about how "effective" CSS was since it got cracked. [2] It is legal to my knowledge, but I am not a lawyer. The DVD player is licensed to decrypt DVD content, so you would be using a legal tool to do this part. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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