sampling from dvd REAR outs...

wsup y'all!!

i been up on this for a while but i thought i'd share for those who are in the dark..

one has a dvd player with FL, FR, RL, RR, Center etc outputs on the back.. a gold diggin mine for samples right there. reason being because on dvd's the music is mostly in the rear of the dvd, so sampling of the RR, RL outs cancels out most of the dialog to some extent..

i do not have a dvd player like this atm, but i have tried it before and it works very well.. reason i'm posting because im getting angry at myself for downloading all these dvdrips.. alot of dvd rips which are unusable due to there 128kbs mp3 quality.. but i do pay credit where the credit is due and buy/rent dvd's that are worth it from a samplers point of view.. i just cannot justify sampling from an mp3. hell, i used to do it when i first got my 2500, but that was before i had trained my ear to the next level.

as for the dvdrips, dialog is great, and very usable, but anything musical i just can;t bring myself to do it. i have a notes and notes stacks high of samples i can chop the fuuk up in crazy ways but just cannot justify it untill i cop a cd quality format atleast...

atleast it makes me know i'm human and not apart of this mp3 culture.. anyone else feel this way or are up on the dvd rear outs..?

also anybody know of a program that can dissect the channels from a dvd>mac?

Pce!

Ive used this a few times. Sometimes its hit or miss. You can get real good sound effects as well.

poundaproblem wrote:Sometimes its hit or miss. You can get real good sound effects as well.

i agree...

padlock wrote:also anybody know of a program that can dissect the channels from a dvd>mac?

On a Mac you can use Quicktime pro to pull out all the audio channels of a .mov or .mpg.

In theory, it should be possible to run an optical/digital coaxial out from the DVD player (which carries all the audio channels) into the equivalent input of a soundcard, whether or not there is software available to pick apart the individual channels from the digital stream is another matter.

ok cheers i'll look into that.. i know theres got to be a program out there that splits the surround channels of a dvd, i have found one a while ago thru google but it was only for purchase.. me being a broke cheap ass muhfuka could not justify it.. i'll google it!

you take a spare set of 1/4" wires and cut the ends off one side. Expose the positive and negative...connect that side to the out of the reciever and the 1/4 to the in on the mpc. Now you should have just the rear left and right going to the MPC.

You should just use the dvd rips to find the audio you want and then rent the dvds with the music on them.

I haven't tried it yet but sometimes you can also get acapellas from the center speaker off of music videos or live concert DVDs

Esquilo wrote:You should just use the dvd rips to find the audio you want and then rent the dvds with the music on them.

^this is my usual plan of attack..
the only thing about dvds that gets annoying is the dynamic range of 96db.. not a bad thing by any means, but can result in the gain knob being maxed out sometimes, only a problem if theres a big range in volume which is rare.. if im using a hardware dvd player i may run it thru my rane, but on the mac im all over Audio Hijack Pro.. that program rocks! i still rock vhs occasionally though lol!