Ripping audio from your VCD

Suppose you have a VCD and you want to rip its audio and save it as an audio file. Well then you have come to the right place because in this tutorial we are going to do this by using a free tool Virtualdub.



Akmal Khan Sapay
2005-02-23

We start the tutorial by grabbing the free tool we are going to use. So go ahead and download Virtualdub version 1.5.10 from this site and click on its icon to start the program. You don't need to install the program, just click on its icon every time you want to start it.

Note: Version 1.5.10 is the stable version at the moment (see tutorial date), new versions will ofcourse do the job too.

Ripping the Audio

By this time your VCD should be in your CD-player. When the program starts choose "Open video file" from the File menu and browse to your CD-rom and double click on it.

What you should be seeing now are around 5 folders: CD1, EXT, MPEGAV, SEGMENT, VCD. Our interest is in MPEGAV folder because that is here the movie or the tracks of the VCD are listed.

Double click to open the folder and see a list of  "AVSEQ01, AVSEQ02" and so forth. Depending on the content of the VCD (a single movie, or a number video tracks) the number of the files may differ.

Ok now double click the file you want to rip audio from and Virtualdub will immediately start parsing it.
See the pic.

When it is done choose "Save Wav.." from the File menu, give the file a name and choose where you want to save it. Virtualdub will now start encoding the audio in your VCD into Wave format.

If the VCD contains a single file for example a movie then the wave file will be quite big. A wave file takes upto 10 MB per minute.

Depending on the processor you have it will take some time until the whole audio is ripped and encoded into wave format.

After encoding is finished your will have your VCD audio in the standard Wave format with a very high quality. Listen and enjoy!

 
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Akmal Khan Sapay
Multimedia Editor
Safis Web