On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 20:41, Jan Stary wrote: > No really, is anyone else seeing this? > > On Dec 15 16:36:02, h...@stare.cz wrote: >> Trying to rip a DVD with mencoder that comes with mplayer-20130819p0 >> on a reasonably current i386 (Lenovo R61).
>> $ mencoder -o /tmp/file.avi -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame dvd://7 I found it was so hard getting the arguments right for transcoding that I eventually gave up trying to do so with the DVD. Here's what I do: mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream mydvd.raw ffmpeg -i mydvd.raw ..... Every dvd would be weird and different and I'd have the wrong frame rate or aspect ratio or something. If you dump the raw stream, you can experiment with multiple settings without thrashing the dvd drive.