While most DVDs contain ac3 soundtracks, there are nevertheless some that have either pcm or mp2 soundtracks. Music DVDs mostly have PCM soundtracks, and sometimes extras are encoded in mp2. I even have one of the rare MPEG-2 multichannel audio titles.

PCM Audio

Despite what the Divx-Digest says I've actually been able to do MPEG-2 2.0 and 5.1 channel tracks directly in FlaskMPEG. Therefore there should not be a problem If however it should not work out for you, then go to Global Project Options - Audio and set audio to Direct Stream Copy. Then do as described below (of course you can skip extracting the audio since Direct Stream Copy does exactly that).

Start up DVD2AVI and chose the first of your VOBs, the others will the automatically be loaded. In the audio submenu configure the audio output. Set 44.1KHz resampling and Normalizing / DRC (for louder audio) if desired. Then chose the format:

Make sure you select Linear PCM or MPEG Audio (depending on what your disk has) as audio format in case the DVD also has other tracks (by default the AC3 track will be taken). Then you can chose the track number as well (usually number one is okay but if you don't get any audio you might want to select another one).

In case of MPEG audio you can select to demux all tracks at once in the MPEG Audio submenu.

After configuring select file - save project and give the project a name. DVD2AVI will then create a project file (.d2v) and a WAV file. You can delete the .d2v file and load the WAV into whatever encoder you like.

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This document was last updated on February 26, 2003