[MPlayer-users] Copying backup dvds?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 7/18/06, Stefan Sassenberg <stefan.sassenberg at gmx.de> wrote:
> Henri Salo wrote:
> > Guillaume POIRIER wrote:


> >>> For a simple copy you can just use
> >>> mencoder dvd://<track> -ovc copy -oac copy -o track.avi
> >>
> >> The resulting AVI won't be playable with many other players other than
> >> MPlayer, if at all.
> >>
> >> G
> > Worth of test :)
>
> Works for me everytime and the result is seekable AFAIR. It is one of
> two ways to make a quick copy of a track. The other one, using
> dumpstream does not evaluate the alang parameter on a test yesterday
> (1.0pre8)

Well, if you wanna just copy a track, it's far better to just dump the
MPEG stream:
mplayer dvd:// -dumpstream -dumpfile out.vob

That way you can keep all subtitles, all audio tracks and you won't
ever have any problem with a/v sync.

G
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