[MPlayer-users] Ripping DVDs Directly to MPEG Files

[Tony Houghton]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:07:15 +0100
Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote:

> On 12/14/2009 11:18 PM, James Board wrote:
> > Yes, 'mplayer -identify' will work, but it also tries to play the video.  Can I tell mplayer to simply display that same information, then exit (so I can capture the output into a file and right a Perl script to RIP the file correctly)?
> 
> mplayer -frames 0
> 
> stops before playing anything

-frames 0 used to work, but at some point it started causing mplayer to
fail to collect some information, eg the aspect ratio, so I use:

mplayer -identify -frames 1 -ao null -vo null

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