[MPlayer-users] Ripping DVDs Directly to MPEG Files

[Jimmy Dansbo]

In general I would say that '-alang en' should work as long as your DVDs
show the language as english. I have seen some DVDs where the language is
just shown as unknown.

I have attached two scripts that I use regularly when converting DVDs to
Xvid. Maybe they can help you.

Ps. You need lsdvd installed to use the dvdinfo.sh script.

Regards
Jimmy Dansbo

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:56 PM, James Board <jpboard2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks, that pretty much worked (it generated an AVI format file, not mpg,
> so I had to use '-of mpeg').
>
> I also used '-alang en' to select the english audio track.  I'm not sure
> which tracks '-aid 128', '-aid 129', etc refer to. On that topic, is there
> an easier way to determine, with mplayer/mencoder, how many audio tracks a
> VOB file has, and what language those tracks are in?  Can I assume that
> 'alang en' will always work right and select the english track?  I'd like to
> automate this process for my entire DVD collection, so I'd rather not have
> to test each file.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Jim
>
>
> --- On Sun, 12/13/09, Jimmy Dansbo <jimmy at dmbox.dk> wrote:
>
> From: Jimmy Dansbo <jimmy at dmbox.dk>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Ripping DVDs Directly to MPEG Files
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports" <
> mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 10:50 PM
>
> I think you are looking for something like:
> mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd -ovc copy -oac copy -aid 128 -o
> myfile.mpg
>
> -ovc and -oac are video and audio tracks. You tell it to copy it instead of
> transcoding it.
> -aid chooses the specific audio track that you want.
>
> Hope it helps (works).
> / Jimmy
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:39 PM, James Board <jpboard2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, a VOB is an MPEG file.  The problem is that my media player doesn't
> > let me choose the audio track, and the default audio track on the VOB
> files
> > from an entire series of DVDs isn't the language I speak.  So, the least
> > painful option for me is to extract the video and correct audio track,
> and
> > then create a non-VOB MPEG file.  Does that make sense?
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 12/13/09, Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote:
> >
> > From: Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it>
> > Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Ripping DVDs Directly to MPEG Files
> > To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> > Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 10:23 PM
> >
> > On 12/13/2009 11:16 PM, James Board wrote:
> > > I know how to use mplayer to create VOB files from DVDs.  I'd like to
> use
> > mplayer to rip DVD directly to an MPEG file, not a VOB file, without
> > transcoding the video data. Is that possible?
> > >
> > > If not, can I use mplayer or mencoder to convert a VOB file to an MPEG2
> > file, without transcoding the video data?
> > >
> > >
> > Isn't the VOB already a MPEG2 file? I can play it with the plain mpeg2
> > player from libmpeg2...
> >
> >
> > --
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