[MPlayer-users] dumpstream generating non monotone timestamps

[Nico Sabbi]

On Friday 29 February 2008 16:18:23 sean darcy wrote:
> I'm trying to convert a dvd to an avi file to stream to a ps3. So I
> used dumpsteam in mplayer to create a vob file:
>
> mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dvd.vob
>
> and then tried to use ffmpeg to put the vob into an avi ccontainer:
>
> ffmpeg -i dvd.vob -vcodec copy -acodec copy dvd.avi
> FFmpeg version SVN-r12192, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard,
[...]

>
> Is there some other option for dumpstream I need? How do I get
> "monotone timestamps"?
>
> BTW, I've tried 3 different dvd's. Same result.
>


"dump" is self-describing: it dumps whatever the stream media
contains, in this case mpeg-ps with resetting timestamps.

You can still remux from dvd to avi: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o 
x.avi dvd://