[MPlayer-users] dumpstream with some DVD: infinite loop?

[Alexander Roalter]

Matt Garman wrote:
> I like to pull the main feature off DVDs, usually using something
> like this:
> 
>     mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dumpfile.vob
> 
> This generally works perfectly.
> 
> However, on occassion, this process does not complete on its own; it
> runs either until the hard drive is full, or the process is killed
> manually.  Has anyone else seen this?  I'm guessing it's a
> peculiarity of the way the DVD was mastered.  Any workaround?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
I had this once when dumping a DVD with dvdnav:// (about two years ago, 
dvdnav since did not behave like it anymore), but never occured with dvd://

Though AFAIK one really can master the titleset in order to get an 
endless loop and filling up the hard disk, but I did not encounter such 
a DVD.

Does playing the title instead of dumping it work?


-- 
cheers,
Alex