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... -- Cheers, Alex