[MPlayer-users] Demuxing without decoding?

[gabor]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 20:02, Corey Hickey wrote:
> > I installed MPlayer to rip the audio from my DVDs to listen to some
> > concerts while driving or walking in the park etc. Obviously I would
> > like to have a good quality of sound to satisfy all environments. Now I
> > don't know much about computers but I know a little bit about
> > compression and I know that second or third generations of coding and
> > decoding don't do the signal much good. What I would like to know is
> > whether MPlayer is actually just demuxing the streams from the DVD
> > when told to dump the stream to ac3 or whether it decodes and then
> > recodes it on the way? If the latter were the case I'd rather rip it to
> > wav-files, but if not, then I am obviously happy to dump the ac3 and
> > then extract the stereo mpeg signal form there (ooops - is that
> > possible? ac3 is new to me as well...)

hmmm... if you want to have the ac3 stream:

mplayer -dvd 1-dumpaudio -dumpfile my.ac3 

but i don't know how do you want to extract the stereo audio from the
ac3 stream.

gabor