Digitally ripping audio from DVDs?

[Lysander]

Hi, all.

I bought the Metallica S&M concert DVD a while ago, and I'd like to be able to kake it so I can take the audio of this concert off the DVD and put it onto
a CD so that I can listen to it in the car / in my portable CD player while I'm wlaking around / etc. I mean, I can buy the concert on CD too but (A) that's
insane, (B) the DVD has more than one audio track that I'd like to preserve, specifically the symphony-only third audio track. Is there any way I can get
wav or flac versions of the DVD audio that don't involve saving the entire DVD video to my hard drive first?

The only program I've found to do this is Xillisoft's audio converter, but it seems to actaully record the mp3 files to my hard drive via stereo mix rather than actually copy the audio, this is a guess on my part that I have concluded from teh fact that the chellos in Nothing Else Matters, because my sound card is very bad, would pop very unnaturally, no matter what volume I played the file at or what speakers I plugged in. Is there anythign else that will do this the right way?

[ArrowHead]

You'll have to rip the video stream along with the audio stream of the chapters which you want to rip.

I find SmartRipper along with DGIndex work pretty well. Use SmartRipper to rip the DVD to the hard drive, and DGIndex to decode the audio. Or if it's AC3 audio and you want a little more fine control over the decoding process, you can demux the audio with DGIndex and decode with a commandline utility called AZID.