[SurroundSound] Audio Hijack Pro (MAC) for ripping stereo DVD-A? Really?

[ted_b]

A poster on another forum challenged me that there were few MAC
programs to rip 24/96-24/192 DVD-Audio (mainly talking 2.0 stereo
here). With DVDAExplorer becoming less available on MAC over the past
few years, I recommended the usual suspects on Windows. However, he
claims:
"the DVD-A should be played at 24/96 bit perfect through Apple Core
Audio without any EQ, or sample rate alterations [if you have an
earlier version MAC (then) that does not support 24/96 ....]. If you
set the Audio Hijack Pro to capture this and set the recording bit and
sample rate correctly (the same) then you should get a bit perfect
copy (provided you do not route anything else through Core Audio at
the same time). "

Is this true? Can a simple program like Audio Hijack Pro rip (in
realtime, of course) rip 24/192 DVD-Audio? What would be the source,
a Mac DVD drive? Oppo via toslink in? Thx
Ted

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[ted_b]

Nevermind. He confessed he doesn't know about hirez. It won't work.
Delete this if you want...thx

[realafrica]

Audio Hijack might rip DVD-A, but it will not defeat the DVD-A
encryption nor the watermarking. It would rip to a file exactly the
same size with no actual content.!

[Joe A]

I'm a Mac guy and I'm not even aware of a way to play DVD-A on the
Mac. Apple's DVD Player.app will only play the DVD-V side.

Once ripped, sure, you can play but remember to set the bit depth and
resolution of the system in the midi setup (in the accessories
folder). I use Play to play back the content.

You can also transcode to ALAC with Max or XLD and play in iTunes
(just turn off processing and cross fade and set volume in iTunes to
100%).