[MPlayer-users] missing audio under win98 with mencoder encoded files

Gerhard den Hollander gerhard at jasongeo.com
Thu Nov 14 10:55:03 CET 2002


* D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> (Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:55:48PM -0500)

> > > as an aside.. how do i copy a vcd directly to a file. something like
> > > mencoder -vcd 2 -ovc copy -oac copy -o movie.dat
> > > copies the VCD to disk but without an index. i have to use -forceidx 
> > > everytime to play it. also, i have to know which/how many tracks are 
> > > present on the VCD (for the -vcd x) any better way to do this??
> > 
> > This is trivial.
> > 1) mount vcd asa normal cd
> >    mount /cdrom
> > 2) cd /cdrom/MPEGAV
> >     there you will find a bunch of files called something like AVSEQ??.DAT
> >     that's your mpeg streams
> >     cp -p AVSEQ* /somehwere/on/your/local/disk
> 
> NO, THIS WILL NOT WORK!! mplayer -dumpstream -vcd 2 is the correct
> way.

That's odd.
I just tried it, and it indeed does *NOT* work.
OTOH Im sure I have been using this trick for a long while to play VCD
tracks using mplayer.

Weird.

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