[MPlayer-users] DVD Ripping trick

[Arpi]

Hi,

> The "trick" is that it IS an .avi once the above is run - it "copies" the 
> DVD data, unmodified, presumably so that if you have room on the hard drive,

not really true
it demuxes dvd vob stream, cuts the selected audio and video stream, drop
others including subtitles, save the selected a+v packets to a+v avi
streams. i'm not sure, but there is an avi >2GB problem...

> you can then do the three-pass encoding significantly faster than it would
> be if you read each pass from the DVD drive.  I assume the above also
> decrypts the data as it reads, so what you get is an unprocessed set of 
> audio and video data, pre-decrypted, from the DVD to the hard drive, for
> easy re-processing later.
yes


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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