How To: Record audio clip from a DVD

meatflower

I need a small sound clip from Lucky Number Slevin, it's for personal use..I don't think I'm breaking any copyright laws. I own the DVD (actually won it from JACK FM).

So I have it all cued up to the part I want to record but I'm having trouble figuring out how to have the sound being outputted by my soundcard also being recorded at the same time. I thought it would be a simple option in Audacity but the only thing I could find that remotely worked was called Software Playthrough and while it did kind of work it produced a ton of white noise and quiet actual audio.

Any way I can do this with free (as in open source or non-malware packed) software?

Thanks.

edit:

I tried some program called OpD2D and it did record something...something horrible that made me throw my headphones off. Kind of horrible scratching sound mixed with interference and buzzing. My ears still hurt...

robaal

Can't you select "Stereo Mix" as the source in audacity?

In some soundcard drives you can select the source for recording in the mixer software (I know my old SB Live! had that option, called "what you hear", as does the Soundstorm mixer).

meatflower

robaal wrote:

Can't you select "Stereo Mix" as the source in audacity?

In some soundcard drives you can select the source for recording in the mixer software (I know my old SB Live! had that option, called "what you hear", as does the Soundstorm mixer).

I thought I had looked in Realtek's crap tastic software (crappy onboard sound) and I didn't see it in the Mixer area. Turns out they hid it on the next page with a tiny arrow button...there it was "Stereo Mix".

Just tested it in Audacity and it works great, clean audio.

Thanks