[MPlayer-users] mencoder and stdin
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
dominik at rangers.eu.org
Sat Oct 2 18:28:43 CEST 2004
On Thursday, 30 September 2004 at 15:35, Ulrich Schweitzer wrote:
> On Thursday 30 September 2004 14:19, RC wrote:
>
> > > What if I only have the file resulting from
> > > mplayer -dumpstream dvd://1?
> >
> > Then just use that "stream.dump" (or whatever the name), as your source
> > file. If you have one big file (not a bunch of VOBS), why are you
> > using cat in the first place?
>
> OK, let me rephrase that: What if I only have the data resulting from
> -dumpstream split into several files because they are on a FAT32
> partition that cannot handle filesizes >2GB?
> BTW: I don't have the problem myself. A friend of mine does and now it has
> become my problem, too, because I asked him to encode a few movies for me
> and I ended up with avis that aren't in sync. The trouble is, that his
> only partition that is big enough to hold vobs is a windows partition.
Well, you should've just copied the vobs from DVD instead. It would've
worked perfectly, trust me.
> So what I need is either a way to encode from the split files (which, I'm
> beginning to assume, doesn't exist as mf:// doesn't work with vobs,
> either) or an easy way to copy the dvd so that -dvd-device works. Is it
> enough to dump the vobs, split them to the same filenames as on the dvd,
> copy the corresponding vts_0?_0.ifo and video_ts.ifo and put all that in
> a dir called video_ts?
I don't know. The easiest way I know is simply to mount the DVD and copy
its contents. The files are no larger than 1GB, so they fit fine on a vfat
partition.
R.
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