Adding to what John wrote, the audio is also often in AC3, which Vegas won't open or edit. Follow the guides at dvdrhelp.com and doom9.org to split the audio & convert it if needed. Consider using dvd2avi & vfapi to get the video into Vegas.

I use DVD decrypter. It demux very well, and after I use headAC3he to transform the AC3 audio to wav.

You can download headAC3he at:

http://www.digitaldigest.com/dvd/downloads/headac3he.html

Josaver.

This link is broken.

I've tried it when I posted the message, and it worked, but now it don't work :-(

I have not another link, I'll try to find another source, sorry.

Josaver.

Try this link please http://spanish.doom9.org/Soft21/Audio/headac3he-0.23a.rar

Josaver.

A little confused here. I used DVD Decryptor and the Video was extracted but remained a VOB file which has loaded into Vegas but no audio at all. Do I need to do something else with this 'extracted' VOB file to get the audio as, say, a wav file or with the original VOB on the DVD?

Cheers.

Actually I found an option to demux as well but the resultant file this time is M2V which doesn't load into V4. I tried changing the filetype to mpg but that never worked either.

Actually a quick check has shown that three of the five files created wouild load into V4 although they are all .M2V and around the same length of about 1GB. The ones that loaded still had no audio. What am I doing wrong?
Any clues?

Cheers

For video, on stream processing, you must check enable stream processing, and chec audio and video.

On the video line you must put direct stream copy. You have a vob file you must rename to mpg and it's all.

For the audio you must check the demux option. It creates an AC3 audio file you can convert to wav or mp3 with headac3he.

On Vegas put the reanemd mpg and the new created wav or mp3.

Josaver.

I use the method above to recapture my own created DVD's and it works well for me.

I use two methods to make my DVD's. The first is use my DVD standalone recorder to make the a DVD only for compression purposes. Then I rip the mpg with DVD decrypter, and feed it to DVDarchitect and made the menus.

With this method I save the compression time on vegas.

The second method is teh normal , make the mpg on vegas, and the DVD on DVDA.

Josaver.