[MPlayer-users] mencode perfect rip

[Grant]

> > I'm trying to rip a DVD with perfect quality before I experiment with
> > compression.  I'm using the following but I think I'm seeing
> > artifacts:
> >
> > mencode dvd://1 -o poseidon.avi -oac copy -ovc copy
> >
> > Is that a perfect rip?
>
> No, not by any means:
> - only one audio track will be copied; subtitles are lost.
> - video frames will likely be dropped or duplicated to make up for
> strange discontinuities in the mpeg stream, causing missing, damaged,
> or choppy video
> - if the original is soft telecine, the framerate will be messed up
> and choppy in the output
> - if the original is hard telecine, it will still be telecined (and
> probably also messed up, due to the above reasons) in the output.
>
> You either need to copy the original mpeg AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY MUXED
> (not remuxing to avi), or reencode with proper settings. Which
> settings are proper depends STRONGLY on the nature of the content.
> There is no magic formula which works for everything.

What is the command to copy the original mpeg as it was originally
muxed?  That's what I'd like to do.  For now I'd like no subtitles,
English audio, stereo mix if available, and uncompressed/unconverted
audio and video.

> > Also, what is your favorite command for a
> > rip+compression without noticeable loss of quality?
>
> Read the encoding guide. A lot of work was spent writing it so that
> this question would not need to be answered over and over again.

Just to be sure, is this the guide:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html

- Grant