[MEncoder-users] Problem with encoding on _every_ cvs snapshot after 2005/03/06

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 07:30:40AM -0000, treponemanichols at ecn.org wrote:
> > Why don't you show us the command line you used? W e have absolutely
> > no idea what you did...
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your answer, Rich. 
> 
> I'm trying to encode into an avi file a regular vob obtained from a PAL dvd
> with "vobcopy -l -n 7 -o ./ -i /mnt/dvd". The vob is ~4.8GB in size.
> The problem is there both when playing the vob and when encoding it, and
> actually the errors are more informative when playing it.
> 
> When playing the vob, the simplest command lines like "gmplayer in.vob"  or
> "mplayer in.vob" will produce the burst of errors I reported yesterday, after 
> 247 seconds (this is only important because it's very near the beginning of 
> the file, so it's not likely to have something to do the file being very big).
> 
> To encode, I use this command line:
> 
> nice -n 0 /usr/local/bin/mencoder in.vob  -o /dev/null   -oac mp3lame \

Don't play vob files this way. Use -dvd-device /path/to/vobs dvd://[titleno]
I'm not positive that will fix it, but that's the correct way to play
a copied dvd, at least.

Rich