[MEncoder-users] Ripping dvd to mp4

[Erik Slagter]

Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux) wrote:
> and you say mencoder can't do that, right? it can't hardcode subtitles? well, 
> everytime i run h264enc, it proves you wrong about this... if you don't 
> specify the -vobsubout option of mencoder, by default mencoder will hardcode 
> the subtitles... period, been there, done that, seen it all... over

I'm saying that mencoder cannot hardcode subtitles coming from a DVD 
(mpeg program stream) while transcoding without the use of several steps 
involving temporary files holding the subtitles. Mplayer can actually do 
this, but it cannot transcode at the same time, which annoys me.

dvd -> mencoder -> mp4, in one pass, I think that's impossible. My 
approach (though not the beauty itself) does it all in one pass.

If I have some spare time the next days I will have another go at 
mencoder, if only to remember what exactly was the problem with mencoder 
and subtitling.