Ah, but Dragi, it isn't the listening that's the problem. It's the owning (and particularly the distributing) of the music without paying royalties that is the crime.

Yes, yes, I know, I was exagerating because use of so strong a term as piracy really irritates me.

...it took him [Tony] quite a while to find software that would read the digital audio from the DVD and write it to a .wav file, and apparently dealing with the sampling rates (48 kilo-somethings vs 44 kilo-somethings) is problematical. We'll keep you informed.

Please do. I didn't even know there is software to do that. So, the sound is not encrypted like video? What about different encodings (AFAIK most new DVDs use Dolby AC-3, a 320kbps 5+1 channel scheme, but there is also older Dolby surround, Prologic, dts etc).

Cheers!

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green