[MPlayer-users] Re: Making and playing DVD ISO or IMG files

[Corey Hickey]

adland wrote:
>>What is the best way to rip DVD movies to ISO or IMG files and then play
>>them with mplayer. 
> 
> 
> unsure best way but here is one way
> 
> unencrypted discs - 
> get dump of entire disc
> dd if=/dev/dvd of=img.iso
> 
> mplayer -dvd-device=img.iso dvd://1
> 
> or you can always just capture the audio/video streams
> 
> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile file.avi dvd://1
> mplayer file.avi
> 
> good luck
> 

Just a quick quip:

'file.avi' is a bit misleading, as the stream dump of a dvd isn't an avi
file. 'file.vob' might be better, as is the default 'stream.dump'.
Mplayer won't choke if the streamdump is named *.avi, but it will
attempt to treat it as an avi file before falling back to trying other
demuxers.

-Corey