[MEncoder-users] A simpleton's DVD ripping troubles & confusion over mplayer/mencoder's seemingly *complimentary* options

[Federico Zema]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Nitin Jain wrote:

> I'm trying to rip out the audio of a certain title (all the chapters, in 
> that title) in a DVD but mencoder never seems to work
> 
> On giving:
> > mencoder.exe dvd://10 -oac copy -o LaP.wav -ovc copy -o junk.vid
> or
> > mencoder.exe dvd://10 -chapter 2 -oac copy -o LaP.wav -ovc copy -o 
> > junk.vid

Hi,
 I'm neither a developer nor an expert user, so take this just as my half 
a cent!

With those command lines you'll get an AVI file anyway. Try this:

mencoder.exe dvd://10 -of rawaudio -oac copy -ovc copy -o LaP.wav

(btw, are you sure the audio track is in wav format?)

 Cheers
 Federico