[MPlayer-users] how do i rip a dvd?

[Alexander Roalter]

ironfuscia wrote:
> i've looked at the man pages for both mplayer and mencoder and, being no
> more than a humble end user, can't even understand what they're talking
> about. if it's possible, what command would i use?
> 
> thanks,
> fuscia
there's no default way to rip an entire DVD, shrink it and author it 
anew to make it look like the original DVD. if you're looking for that, 
mplayer is not the tool for you.

mplayer is only good for creating the video and audio-stream needed for 
the DVD, in addition you need the transcode tools to multiplex them all 
together, add subtitles, and lastly dvdauthor to make a DVD-conforming 
structure and even menus.

Ripping a specified track of a DVD is quite simple tho:

mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream

dumps the entire title #1 (which most of the time is the main feature) 
to a file stream.dump, which contains the video and all audio and 
subtitle streams, suitable for further processing.

for copy-protected Sony-DVDs use mplayer dvdnav://1 -dumpstream instead.


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cheers,
Alex