On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:27:57 -0500, David Vernon wrote: > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: >> I am looking for a reliable way of ripping a DVD onto hard drive. I have tried to use mencoder and transcode with and without GUIs, but I get rather >> mixed results (mostly video is fine, but the sound is all jumbled). The re-encoding is not a requirement, I can keep the original VOBs as long as >> there is some way to rip and use subtitles. I have tried and tried and to no avail. If someone has suggestions, tried and proven commands or any other >> help on the subject I would truly appreciate. > > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile ./bigmovie.mpeg dvd://$yourTitleNumber > > The output of this is playable via mplayer,xine,whatever as a big mpeg > and the sound will be in sync. > However, if you then want to author bigmovie.mpeg with dvdauthor, say, you can't. Or at least it's not straightforward. I had to dumpvideo, dumpaudio, then re-multiplex the two in order to get an mpeg usable by dvdauthor. And the final product had a significant and annoying A-V difference of a few seconds. I'd be interested in a good way of authoring the dumped stream.
