Ripping a DVD menu [SOLVED]

[paulbiz]

I have a music CD that came with a Video-DVD which contains some videos as well as "bonus" songs as part of the menu structure (in other words when you select a song, it doesn't play a new title, it just goes to another menu with that song playing in the background). When I use mplayer with dvdnav, or xine, I can browse the menu, watch the videos and listen to the songs just fine. However, when I try to use vobcopy to rip the titles, none of them contain the songs. Using verbose mode in mplayer, when I choose one of the songs from the menu it says it is switching to title 0, so that's why I am assuming the songs are actually just sub-menus with background music.

Nothing I've tried has allowed me to play one specific part of the menu, and I haven't been able to rip the full menu so I can extract the songs. Hopefully I'm missing some obvious tool

If someone has an idea about how to get into the menu, I'd be happy to try it. Thanks.

[yabbadabbadont]

Try using dvdunauthor as it will pull apart the entire dvd, including the menu vobs.

It is part of the dvdauthor package.
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[paulbiz]

Thanks for the tip, that got the 7 vob files with the 7 songs! I can play them just fine with xine, but not in mplayer... which happens to be what I was planning on using to extract the audio. Emerging avidemux now to see if it can perhaps handle them.

[paulbiz]

Actually, mplayer fails to play it normally, but "mplayer filename.vob -dumpaudio" still worked! Thanks again for your help, now I will mark it solved And for the record, avidemux failed to read them.