Recording concerts from DVD video

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I've decided to put my music dvd collection onto MD's so I can listen to the audio that way. I haven't had as many problems as I thought. I set the sound output on the card to 24 bit/48 khz and hook up a good coax cable into the JB940. For discs that don't have a PCM track, I play them through the good old VLC player. I try to set the volume on VLC about %75 to leave about 1.5 db of headroom (yeah, I grew up on tape - go ahead and yuk it up. I don't mind.).

I haven't done any ABX tests yet and I don't think I'm going to. I don't have the surround sound hooked up right now so I had to laugh when I kept looking at the center channel speaker. There isn't any wire to it - but the soundstage was so wide with just 2 front speakers that I found it hard to believe (no processing from the amp at all - just straight 2 channel output). I'm pretty impressed with DTS 5.1. I thought it might be better to use the Dolby 2.0 stereo mix but I'll never use it if there is DTS surround available. It's really that good.

I'm sure there are some who will say that there is too much resampling, rounding, etc. going on for it to sound good but it does. To be fair some of the cymbals don't sound the greatest. But they don't sound any better on the native DTS mix either. Minidisc is a funny thing sometimes. I've found that to my ears I'd much rather listen to say a Mobile Fidelty Sound Labs CD recorded through Sonic Stage in LP2 than the original release CD in 16 bit 44.1 khz native.

So there is my take on recording audio from dvd's. I'd like to hear how others are doing this - I'm always open to a better method.