Laserdisc Ripping?

Hi Everyone,
In the past I have always tried to find members that could do this for our Team and myself, well I believe the time has come that I learn this myself, I just sent out today my LD Player which is a Pioneer CLD-79 Elite, this baby is mint! but she needs a tune-up, so I am sure Duncan will do a sweet job, I have read nothing but good from this guy so I can't wait!

My PC is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and 16GB RAM, not sure if this matter but that is what it is, I am looking for an RF Demodulator but it seems Ebay is a little slim at the moment, but from what little I could find online I only need this for ripping AC3 files, but what is needed for ripping the Digital PCM and the DTS tracks? and the biggest question of all that I found zero info on is what software is used when ripping AC3, Digital PCM and DTS? with all these projects we have going and such I need a quicker turn around time for these audio files, so if anyone at all can steer us to a guide, or has the answers needed, please post them, and by the way this is the sound card I have, not sure if this is up to par or I need to upgrade.

Creative 70SB088000004 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Express 1x Interface PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

AntcuFaalb said:

Google around to see if the 70SB088000004 does bit-accurate recordings via its TOSLINK input.

Unbelievably, some cards don't, even though the data itself is digital!

Thanks for that info, I have been searching and can't find anything that says yes or no, this whole subject is rather irritating when searching for info, I can find nothing anywhere, unless I am not using the right search terms lol.

Do you have a firewire connection? If so, I can confirm that M-Audio Firewire Audiophile does bit accurate captures. The software I used is Audacity (freeware). I use this setup because I have a macbook so an external sound card was my only option. The M-Audiophile 2496 PCI sound card can also capture bit perfect audio.

You only need a demodulator for AC3 captures. PCM audio is captured using a coaxial cable. No other gadgets required. Pretty sure DTS is also a direct capture.

Thank you for the response, it just sucks you can't find any real in depth info online regarding this, if you think of anything else to add please do, thanks again.

well I did find this,

http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?sid=10843

AntcuFaalb said:

dark_jedi said:

Thank you for the response, it just sucks you can't find any real in depth info online regarding this, if you think of anything else to add please do, thanks again.

well I did find this,

http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?sid=10843

Do you have that dialog window available with the drivers/applications that were installed to support your sound card?

Yes I can get it to pop up, I have the X-fi card, but once set what software does the actual ripping? Vegas Pro? Audacity? Cool Edit Pro? or something different? lol I will probably have my LD player back to me before I even know how to do this, oh well just keep searching lol, but we really need to figure this out for future projects, so maybe some might not have the bit perfect PCM.

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

D_J, I always used AviSynth to capture video from laserdisc, along any kind of audio (PCM, DTS, AC3); then you could use any software to manipulate the captured soundtrack. If you need further info, let me know.

I jumped into the HD-DVD bandwagon few days ago, and now you came into my realm... "Welcome to the world of the analog video disc!" (^^,)

How does Avisynth rip laserdisc audio? I am mainly concerned with ripping bit accurate rips of the PCM and DTS, followed by AC3, I want to learn and test(once my player is back) on Mortal Kombat DTS LD.

Duncan won't have the player until Friday and I do not know what his turn around time is, I assume it does not take to long.

OK Laserdisc Service has my Player in top notch working order and it has had a tune-up, it looks like I will have it by mid or end of next week, I also have a new Yamaha APD-1 on the way as well so I cannot wait to learn how to do all this stuff myself, as I said this will really help us out in moving things along instead of waiting on shipping and the guy ripping to free up time, plus I am not real happy about mailing my LD's off lol.

So hopefully next weekend I can start doing some testing on this and get it all sorted.

Does anyone happen to have any links to these M-Audio cards? I keep getting nothing and just in case I do need to get a different card I would like to look into this one, it seems to be the one most talk about, and it would be nice to have both coax and optical, now I only have optical.

Thanks

OK I have my LD player back now and it is hooked up to my PC, I also set my X-Fi for bit accurate recording, I have tested ripping with Audition but this program just keeps crashing for some darn reason, I have also tried Creatives WaveStudio, all I am trying to do now is just get something ripped, I will check for bit accuracy after I know I can do it, so what program do you guys use to rip the tracks ac3, PCM and DTS?

1 more thing, I bought new\sealed Conan The Destroyer Japanese LD because it is the only release with Digital Audio, well this LD plays way to fast! sounds like darn chipmunks, now I have other Japanese LD's that do not do this, does anyone know why this is? I am going to be pissed if I wasted my money on this, this is 1 track I really want to rip and put in synch with the BD.

Thanks

I do not have a video capture card on my new PC, I thought my days of LD video capture are done, so how do I rip just audio with VDub?

although I would not mind finding a new video capture card for my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit machine just to have it, you know just in case, even though for now I do not think I will ever need LD video, are there any good cards out there that will work with my set up and will not break the bank?

So no more ideas on what to use to rip the audio with, I can't figure out how to just rip audio with VDub and Audition is giving me fits, I really want to start testing and getting this down I have a shitload of LD's that could use some ripping.

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

Well, if you can't use that

 shitload of LD's

you could always think to donate them... to me, perhaps? (^^,)

Have you tried to capture via VirtualDub, without actually capturing video? Set the capture device to screen capture, set the audio input to digital/SPDIF, set audio RAW format to 441000hz/16bit stereo and test it - it *should* work.

 

Can you show me some screens of how you set yours up?

Thanks