The way I'd do it on the mac ... there's a few programs that can do the job. 1st step would be to extract the dvd contents to HDD. Then I'd use another program to separate (demux) the files -> separate the audio & video files. In which case you'll probably end up with several ac3 files. Or my utilities also have the option of extracting the audio & converting to AIFF. From there I can then use an audio editor to convert from 48 to 44.1 kHz. Then do as I wish such as convert to mp3 or whatever.

Wow! That's a whole bunch of good help and fine suggestions!

Thank you very much everyone, much appreciated.

I'll look into these and report back if I get anywhere.

One of the things I'll be doing is to try to figure out which is the method with the least number of steps. It's not that I'm lazy, but I don't want to devote tons of hours to doing this.

Thanks again, to each of you who posted.

What an amazing amount of expertise you've all gathered. Be Proud.

Bests

there is no 'simple' way to do it...

as noted by LOTR, yur gonna have to rip the files to HDD, separate the audio from the video (demuxing), convert sample rate from 48 to 44.1, then locate the audio you want, edit out everything but that, then save to disc as an audio file...the manual editing of the source file is gonna be the biggest PITA