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How to convert audios from DVD to DTS CD with DVD Audio Extractor

Summary:

This tutorial shows you all the details about how to extract audios from DVD-Video with DVD Audio Extractor, save them as PCM uncompressed Wave, then convert to DTS-Wave format, and finally burn them into a DTS CD.

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Step 1: Select the chapters you want to extract

  1. Insert the DVD you want to extract, and launch DVD Audio Extractor. The contents of the disc will be shown up automatically.
    step1
    By default, DVD Audio Extractor activates the first title and lists all its chapters. You can click on any title that you are interested to change the active title (1). If there are more than one angle available on that title, click on the specific angle. The chapters of the selected title will be listed.
  2. Now click on the audio stream you want to use to select it (2).
  3. (Optional) By default all the chapters on the first title is selected. To change your selection, click on the check box before each chapter (3).
  4. (Optional) If you want, you can click on the chapter to change its name (4). The name you entered will be used as the output file name.
  5. Now click on the Next button to proceed to next page (5).

Step 2: Select which format you want to use for encoding

  1. Select WAV as output format (1).
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  2. Now select 44100 Hz as the output sample rate (2). That is the standard sample rate for CD.
  3. Select All 6 channels as the output channel (3). We need to keep all the 6 channels for a DTS CD.
  4. Select 16 bits as the bit depth for the output Wave file (4). That's again the standard for CD.
  5. Select the option Save each channel into separate file (5), so that we can get 6 mono Wave files, one for each channel.
  6. Now click on the Next button to proceed to next page (6).

Step 3: Setup output file location and other setting

  1. Select the output folder where you want to put the extracted audio files (1).
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  2. Select the option Save each chapter into separate file (2). This is necessary if you want to seek between tracks on the final CD.
  3. (Optional) Select the option Overwrite files with the same name (3). When not selected, suppose your have a selected chapter called "Chapter 01", and there is already a file "Chapter 01.wav" in the output folder, then this chapter will be skipped.
  4. (Optional) If you want, you can select Enable normalization and change the output audio level (4). This could be useful because DVD audios are usually recorded for quiet listening environment. Just keep in mind that normalization will take additional processing time.
  5. Now click on the Next button to proceed to next page (5).

Step 4: Start encoding and watch the process

  1. Click on the Start button to start the encoding process (1).
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  2. When finished, click on the Exit button to quit DVD Audio Extractor (2).

Convert WAV files to DTS-Wave format

  1. Launch Windows Explorer, browse to the output folder. You will find all the extracted files there. Each chapter was converted into 6 mono Wave files. Now we'll convert those 6 files again into one big DTS-Wave file for each chapter.
  2. Launch SurCode DVD-DTS Encoder. Click the Destination... button to select the name for the DTS-Wave file (1).
    SurCode DVD-DTS Encoder
  3. Click the buttons Left Front... to Right Surround... to select the mono files we've just created (2). Put the files in the order ch1, ch2, ... ch6 from top to down. This will ensure the right channel order for the result DTS-Wave file.
  4. Click the Encode button to start the converting process (3). Wait till it finished.
  5. Repeat 2 to 4 for all remain chapters.

Burn the DTS-Wave files to CD with Nero

  1. Launch Nero StartSmart. In the popped up New Complication window, Select CD (1) and then Audio CD (2).
    New Complication window
  2. Click the New button (3), in the popped up Nero Burning ROM window, drag and drop the DTS-Wave files for all the chapters to the CD contents window on the left side.
    Nero Burning ROM
  3. Select from main menu Recorder->Burn Compilation. A Burn Compilation window will pop up.
    Burn Complication window
  4. Insert a black CD-R disc in to your CD recorder and click the Burn button (4). Wait till the burning process finished. Now you have just made yourself a DTS CD from the DVD. Remember this CD can only be played on system that support DTS CD format.
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