Best way to downsample ?

Hi all, I have a 24/96 soundstream ripped from DVD-A. With a small utility (Thanks Thomas !) I was able to convert the raw stream to a usable wav . Ripped the stream with Vstrip. What is the best method to downsample this to 16 bit 44.100 ? I have Soundforge 6 and Cooledit . What options do I need and which give the best result ? Any input is welcome ! regards, Eye of Horus

SSRC is rumored to be the best downsampler. It's included in BeSweet AFAIK. You can also use WaveLab to downsample. The quality is perfect und it works a lot faster than SSRC.

WaveLab has perfect downsampling routines. There isn't much options. You can do it under batch processing to get highest speed. There you select the downsampler (set it oh High Quality of course), you select 16-bit WAV output format, the output directory and then you run it. Note than WaveLab will downsample in 32-bit floating point mode, than dither to 16-bit. So don't worry about that. Speed: to downsample a 20-min 24-bit Mono WAV @48KHz to 16-bit WAV @44,1KHz, it takes only one minute on my P3@667MHz.

I'm clearly wrong, but I thought it wasn't yet possible to rip audio directly from a DVD-A. Did you rip it directly or did you loop it through your sound card?