[MPlayer-users] mplayer can't play the first 3 seconds of a dvd

[belcampo]

Brian wrote:
> I'm running MPlayer SVN-r28964-4.3.2
> 
> I issue the command "mplayer dvd://23" and it plays the first 1.1
> seconds of blank screen, then says it's reached EOF.
> 
> I use "mplayer dvd://23 -ss 3.1" and it plays the whole movie just
> fine, just skips the first 3 seconds of filler. With all values <=3.0
> it EOF's after 1.1s.
vobcopy -l -i /media/cdrom -n 23 -b 3m -o path/whereyouwanttheresulting.vob
with -b and -e combination you can cut certain part of the dvd
3m is a guess for the first 3 secs
> 
> This isn't really a big deal, except I'm trying to transcode the DVD
> to put on my "movies" computer. mencoder's giving me trouble with the
> DVD, too, and the recommendation I got from the mencoder list was to
> "mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile tmp.mpg"
> Unfortunately, because mplayer EOF's at 1.1s, it only dumps the first
> 1.1s of blank screen. I can't seem to get it to dump any more of the
> stream.
> 
> Any suggestions?
>