Due to the complexity of DVD encryption and the slow speed of decrypting DVD contents,
we decide not to burn DVD soundtrack cd directly to avoid waste of blank cds.
The preferred procedure is listed as following: convert DVD to mp3 or wav, then
burn these mp3s or wavs to cd. Now x2cd supports DVD navigator to treat
the whole DVD as one continuous stream, not several individual .vob files any
more! If you get decrypted vob files in your harddisk, you can add them as
usual media files.
1.
Insert your DVD disc
into your computer's DVD driver
2.
Start X2CD and press
"Convert" button to convert DVD to mp3/wav. 
3.
Open DVD's *.IFO
file. They are usually located in the VIDEO_TS directory in the DVD disc. Any
one is ok. Once x2cd opens the files, x2cd will analyze titles available and add
them into media list for your choice.
4.
X2CD
adds all titles the DVD has, as following:
5.
Select the segments
from the DVD title.
Double click the item or press button  ,
then you will see the media chooser dialog. It's also used to listen to the
music selected.
You need to select an appropriate
language ( for multi-language DVDs).
You can seek in the file and find the
beginning and ending of a soundtrack. When you find the beginning, press
button 
and you
will get the current start time. Press button 
for setting the stop time. You can also click on the displayed time to popup a small window to adjust
start/stop time accurately.
After that, press button 
to add this segment into the list. And you will be able to select next
soundtrack just from the ending point of the previous track. Repeat until all
contents in this vob file are checked and selected. Then press the red button to
exit this dialog.
Functions of other buttons in this
dialog:
 Jump
to the previous track.
 Test
the select segment. Play from the selected start point to the end point.
 Play
the file. Play from the beginning of the whole file and to the end of the file.
 Pause/continue
playing the track.
 Stop
playing.
 Jump
to the next track.
 Seek
to the selected start point.
 Seek
to the selected stop point.
 Delete
the current track.
6.
Repeat 3. and 4.
until all necessary segments are selected.
7.
Arrange the order if
necessary
8.
If you need to rename the track, select the item first and then single click the
title area. You will be prompt to enter the new title for the track.
9. Press "start" to convert selected DVD to
mp3s or wavs.
10. Before start the session, you can select wav format
and mp3 bitrate you preferred.
Frequency select
"Original" means use the audio source's original wav
format. Usually DVD has a 48Khz sampling rate while CD is
using 44Khz sampling rate. It's recommended that you should
use 160kbits/s or higher for CD quality mp3s.
10. Goto this instruction to burn these DVD soundtrack mp3
or wav files to CD.
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