How do I rip background music from a DVD?
 

There's some wonderful background music in some movies that never become available on the official soundtracks, and are therefore of no commercial value.

My computer came with a pre-installed Nero Burning ROM suite v.6.6.0.5 which includes a free trial for ripping 30 audio files for free from an audio CDROM. Nero is also a good program (I'm told) for video DVD work in general. But how do I use Nero (or any other good program) to rip music from a DVD?

Thanks.

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Thanks for the heads up. I was referring to some very old movies made in the late '40s and early '50s, like "The Third Man" (1949), so I didn't think there was any copyright in them anymore. In Canada at least (where I am), artistic works over 50 years old are in the public domain.

Can you help me this far: Is Nero the right tool to use?

I bought the Third man dvd for my father. I watched it & was a good movie.

I'm not the one to ask about windows programs for that purpose. Are you trying to extract from dvd or from a downlded video file? If from dvd, then you'll probably need an extraction tool to by-pass the copy protection which stops you copying to your computer.

Thanks for answering. I'm a classical music fan, and back in those days they hired classical composers to do movie scores: Aaron Copeland, Alfred Newman and Stephen Sondheim, to name a few.

It would be helpful to know how to extract the music from a downloaded video file of an old movie.

I'm glad you liked "The Third Man" too.

:)

To find such tools, here's a good place to start http://www.videohelp.com/
There's also a search option here to search exactly for what you're after http://www.videohelp.com/tools
BTW some of the tools are freeware, some donateware, some shareware, some commercial.

Nero does have that feature in Nero Vision when you choose make a DVD there is a option to record the audio. But unfortunately I have never used it so I wont be able to help you there other than to tell you it is in the edit screen.

If no-one can help you out here, try the Nero support site:)
http://www.nero.com/eng/Support.html

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The same thing you do every where else Helping :)

I can help you!
 

I have thought of a solution. Try to get a program called DVD Decrypter (it has being banned, I think, so it might take a while to find on the web), use this to remove the css (copy Wright code thingy) from the DVD while ripping it to the hard drive. This should take no more than about 15 minutes max. Now that the css has being removed you should be able to open it in many programs such as NERO where you can edit freely. If Nero is no good try opening the decrypted movie file in a video editing program such as ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO or ADOBE PREMIAIR then get rid of all the footage that does not contain the audio you want, then save as a sound file...DONE
Hope this jumble of words provides some help
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