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

[Matt Garman]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:17:10PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Il Thursday 13 December 2007 18:10:06 Matt Garman ha scritto:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:32:11PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > > Il Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:33:40 Matt Garman ha scritto:
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > unlikely. what title is it?
> >
> > Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
> >
> 
> Are you sure the file keeps on growing? or is it simply blocked
> because of bad sectors? dmesg will tell you if there are reading
> messages; otherwise try to install dvdnav as explained in
> DOCS/tech/dvdnav-howto.txt and reconfigure mplayer with
> --disable-dvdread-internal, then rerun the usual command.  Is
> there any difference?

It definitely keeps on growing, as I did a "watch -n 1 dumpfile.vob"
until it grew to well over 10 gigs.  I do this out of habit now, as
the first few times this has happened, I've stepped away from the
computer and literally filled up the filesystem.

I also tried the mplayer svn libdvdnav hack you suggested; same
problem.