Best way to sample a DVD player??

Ok, I wanna sample a movie for a live performance my group has coming up but I have not clue how to get the audio. Would I sample from the audio jacks of the TV??? Or would I sample right outta the DVD player?

Oh yeah I'm sampling into ableton 9

if yer tv has audio OUT jacks - i'd just do that because it is the simplest to get *whatever* is plugged into your tv.

not all tvs have these though, so be sure to make sure the jack is OUTPUT.

otherwise, you have to go straight from the dvd player. you can leave the video plugged into the tv and use the dvd RCA outs.

another way still is to play the dvd in the computer, and reroute the audio using something like soundflower. capture the soundflower input in ableton.

Anybody needing to do this on Windows here's a super easy way.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/PotPlayer

Excellent free media player, in it right click choose Audio and go to Audio Capture device. You can toggle it to start recording as soon as your hit play and choose the location for the recording to save to.

The WAV it renders is 48khz though, so convert to 44.1khz for MPC use. It's just rendering the audio data straight from the disc or file so it's nice that there is no extra gain stage or sample conversion stage provided you can load 48khz in your host app or machine. I've actually been using the Potplayer Audio Capture feature all day today.

This will work for a DVD, file whatever. (Potplayer plays more formats than VLC even).

tapedeck wrote:reroute the audio using something like soundflower. capture the soundflower input

Or use the headphones out of the TV

I've always used the audio outs from the TV and for years I recorded to an SP-202. These days I just hook up a hand-held digital recorder and drag and drop to the computer.

DVDs are dope to sample because they are like a 4 track stereo sound. Movies got dynamics so you got the traditional left and right signals and the front and back signals, but mostly high budget movies have their audio set up like that. Sometimes you get the whole soundtrack without the dialog with good panning.

If your DVD player is anything like a traditional player then you can sample the audio no problem with RCA jacks. Just ignore the video jack. Connect the output audio to your interface and sample.