CDR out on DVD player.

My dvd player has a coax output to CD-R, don't suppose this means i can record sound from dvds (would have thought just straight copies of audio cds)?

 

Yes - or a MiniDisc deck, but you have to set the digital audio output to PCM, as an MD/CD-R deck won't understand how to decode Dolby Digital/DTS/DVD-Audio encoding, as the bit-rate is completely different (24-bit/96Khz, as opposed to 44Khz used by CD-R/MiniDisc). In effect, you are 'downsampling' the audio stream from the DVD player.

You should be able to change the output setting in the setup options under audio on your DVD player.

 

but i can effectively copy the sound from a music dvd, or the dialogue from a video dvd to CD/MD?

 

Yep - that should be fine.

 

on the settings menu, you can set pcm output to 48 or 96, which do i go for for recording?

 

48, provided your MD deck has a sampling rate converter (most of them do).