[MPlayer-users] problem with VOB file

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 4/19/06, Deepan Chakravarthy <codeshepherd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>   When i play a .vob file. It quits after 20 min. So i used -ss option
> and started it from 25 min as follows.
>
> $mplayer -ss 00:25:00 -v myfile.vob
>
> But this time it opens a black screen, waits for a while, then quits. Is
> it possible to fix the vob file with mencoder or skip the part using
> mplayer ?

probably, you should be able to do that with the following line:

mencoder myfile.vob -of lavf -o out.mpg -ovc copy -oac copy

Guillaume
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