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Talking Heads Live In Rome 1980 DVD

Hi all,

Trying to find out what the audio quality is like on the Talking Heads Live In Rome 1980 DVD.
I want it pretty much just to rip the audio.

A few quick questions:

- Are all music DVDs lossy?
- Is it likely to be AAC?
- If anyone's got it can they tell me what kbps / profile the audio is?

It's only 45 mins - wouldn't that give them an opportunity to have better audio quality?
I don't think this has ever been released "audio only" - if someone knows to the contrary please let me know where I can get hold of it.

Many thanks in advance.

C.
PC = TAK + LossyWAV  ::  Portable = Opus (130)

Talking Heads Live In Rome 1980 DVD

Reply #1 –
My Ben Folds DVD has a 48KHz PCM audio track.

My Stop Making Sense DVD is only AC3 though IIRC.

I think perhaps you mean AC3, rather than AAC.
I'm on a horse.

Talking Heads Live In Rome 1980 DVD

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Synthetic Soul on
I think perhaps you mean AC3, rather than AAC.

To be honest - I'm not sure what I mean - I probably meant AAC but if I knew anything about DVD audio I'd have meant AC3.
Is there some site which has this kind of "tech info" on DVD releases, for example, is it on the packaging of your Ben Folds DVD?
I'm still at a loss as to how to find out.

Finally, I'm not sure if I posted in the right forum, so if this should go in General Audio or somewhere else, please feel free to move it.

Thanks

C.
PC = TAK + LossyWAV  ::  Portable = Opus (130)

Talking Heads Live In Rome 1980 DVD

Reply #3 –
I think the cases do normally list the audio tracks contained.  I am at work, so can't check, but I'm 95% certain the Ben Folds DVD mentions PCM on the cover.

Bear in mind that if AC3 has solely been used it will probably be very high bitrate.  I know it's not optimal, but a transcode shouldn't be a major deal.

Play has this for £7 BTW.
I'm on a horse.
 

Talking Heads Live In Rome 1980 DVD

Reply #4 –
Thanks Synthetic Soul, and thanks too for the Play tip.
I'll go with it since it sounds like the compressed audio on DVD is much higher bitrate than I imagined.

Cheers,

C.
PC = TAK + LossyWAV  ::  Portable = Opus (130)