[MPlayer-users] DVD Ripping trick ... & bugreport

Luke Harrison luke at vv.carleton.ca
Mon Apr 29 23:27:28 CEST 2002


On 29 Apr 2002 22:46:49 +0200
"Julian J. M." <bandit at telecable.es> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi
> 
> 	For those of you that don't like doing a 3-pass dvd to divx conversion,
> you can rip the movie to the HD in several minutes and 'mencode' from
> there:
> 
> 	mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o dvdmovie.avi
> 
> 	Then you can do the 3 pass encoding using dvdmovie.avi as a source.
> 
>

Yes, well guy,  not everyone has a spare 6 gigs of HD space for this size of file.
And of course it would play faster from a hardrive vs. DVD driver..
But who wants to copy 4-6 gigs of DVD to the harddrive each time to try to watch it?

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Luke Harrison
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