[MPlayer-users] Having mencoder read multiple *.vob files?

[Martin Hoffmann]

Is this also supposed to work for *.VDR Files ?

If i try cat 001.vdr | mencoder -divx4opts br=1050 -pp 0x20000 -pass 1 -

I get the following output:

Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 18 audio & 39 video codecs
Reading from stdin...
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x0
MPEG packet stats: p100: 262  p101: 255  PES: 2122
MPEG packet stats: p100: 239  p101: 238  PES: 2117
header block 1 size: 12
============= Sorry, this file format not recognized/supported
===============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author!
===
Cannot open demuxer

It seems as if mencoder refuses to read from stdin ?

Any ideas ?

btw.: The same 001.vdr works if called mencoder <opts> 001.vdr
Martin.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Marquardt" <colin at marquardt-home.de>
To: <mplayer-users at mplayer.dev.hu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Having mencoder read multiple *.vob files?


> Colin Marquardt <colin at marquardt-home.de> writes:
>
> > Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> writes:
> >
> > > > > if you wanna encode dvd, use the -dvd option
> > > >
> > > > Well, the thing is, I have the DVD only as files on my harddisk.
> > > > Could I fake it somehow into thinking that a simple directory was a
> > > > DVD? Or concatenate the *.vob files and let mencoder handle this as
> > > > a stream?
> > >
> > >
> > > what about:
> > > cat *.vob | mencoder [options] -
> >
> > I'll try it, thanks.
>
> Works fine. Could this be added to the docs? Patch attached.
>
> Cheers,
>    Colin
>
>