[MPlayer-users] DVD Ripping trick

[Chris Phillips]

> 	For those of you that don't like doing a 3-pass dvd to divx conversion,
> you can rip the movie to the HD in several minutes and 'mencode' from
> there:
> 
> 	mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o dvdmovie.avi
> 
> 	Then you can do the 3 pass encoding using dvdmovie.avi as a source.
> 
> 	I don't know if it was already known, but it should be in the DOCS.
> what do you think?

I think that that's just extremely obvious, and also it's NOT an avi, so 
why on earth are you calling it one? the docs contain info on -ovc copy 
and such like, so if, for example, you wanted to copy a dvd stream 
directly to a hard drive and then encode it later, then that's obviously what 
you'd do... or am i missing something? i really can't see a "trick" as 
such, just a great way to fill up /tmp or whatever.

chris