[MPlayer-users] how to extract audio and subtitles w/o video

[Stefan Lange]

Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi. I was trying to figure out how it was possible to extract audio 
> tracks in pcm format and subtitles in vobsub format from a dvd. I don't 
> want video.
> 
> As far as I can see I can't use -vobsub with mplayer but only with 
> mencoder. But with mencoder I have to select a video codec - I don't 
> need video. And it's not clear to me how can I extract audio (I need 
> something similar to -aofile in mplayer) with mencoder...
> 

RTFM, it's all in the manpage:

subs from dvd -> vobsub-file:

        -dumpsub (MPLAYER only) (BETA CODE)
               Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams.  See 
-dump*sub and -vobsubout*  options
               too.

audio to pcm:

mplayer -dvd 1 -vc asdf -vo null -hardframedrop -ao pcm -aofile audio.wav

will dump the audio from the first dvd-title to the file audio.wav



> Any clearifying help would be appreciated, thank you!
> 
> ciao
> as
>