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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 02 October 2006 at 17:10, Federico Zema wrote:
> 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?)

That will result in an AC3 file, most probably (AC3 is the most common
audi codec in DVD).

If you want wav, use something like:
mplayer -ao pcm:fast:file=file.wav -vo null -vc null dvd://10

Regards,
R.

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