[MPlayer-users] Checking movies for errors

[Fabio Papa]

Farrell Farahbod wrote:
> Is there a way to ask mplayer to scan a .vob, and tell me if there's a
> broken part. By broken, I mean where it skips or has corruption.
> 
> I have a DVD that I ripped with "mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile
> blah.vob" and my DVD is scratched a bit, so half way through the movie,
> it skips like 2 minutes of the movie. My friend has the same DVD so I'm

Hi, I'm not entirely sure, but I think the skipping effect affects only 
settop players. Mplayer will either dump the vob ok or throw some 
Input/Output error and stop. I stand to be corrected, though...