On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Ann Richmond wrote: > I have an iMac runninng OS 10 with iTunes which my daughter loves. > She wants to copy a song from a movie on a dvd which she plays on the > computer to a > playlist in iTunes.
This can be done, but it's a little involved. (I spoke about doing this at an LCS meeting about a year ago, by the way. Hardly anybody showed up.) There are a couple of problems you have to overcome. First, the files on a DVD are MPEG2 video with (usually) AC3 audio, and the files are muxed. This means they are combined together. They are also encrypted, although this isn't a problem. There are a bunch of programs you can download to get at the information. The program called OSEx will grab the muxed files off the DVD and put them on your hard drive. Be sure you have lots of time and patience -- they're big. <http://www.cse.Buffalo.EDU/%7eafaversa/OSEx-current.sit> The software mAC3dec will convert the AC3 audio to MP3. <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10381> I use these programs to make SVCDs out of DVDs. There are plenty of tutorials out on the Web to help you with this. Just do some Googling on combinations of the words Mac DVD rip extract VCD SVCD. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
