[MPlayer-users] Why does a -dumpstream dump not play when mplayer can play the DVD directly fine?

[Alex Bennee]

On 5 May 2012 10:37, Andy Furniss <andyqos at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Alex Bennee wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having some problems ripping some of the DVDs in my collection.
>> The DVD plays fine with a normal command line, e.g.:
> <snip>
>> mplayer dvd://2 -dumpstream -dumpfile test.vob
>
> The first thing to try if mplayer can't play a stream is to use -demuxer
> lavf. If you already are using it - try without.

I get the same un-playable results with -demux lavfpref, lavf and default.

Interestingly the second and third runs worked very quickly, I assume because
the block cache was warm with the raw data from the DVD.

Any other suggestions?

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