[MPlayer-users] Ripped DVD got wrong aspect ratio?

[Andreas Lange]

Diego Zuccato wrote:

>I tried it first (just to avoid installing too many programs):
>mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -dvd 1 -aid 129 -o Ryan.avi
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>But the resulting file is (obviously!) greater than 2Gb and so
>(guess...) is not a valid avi file.
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the easiest way is:
mplayer -dvd 1 -dumpstream -dumpfile Ryan.vob

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>I'd prefer a 3-pass encoding since "someone" told the result is better
>(at least the size is closer to what I want to perfetly fill my CDs).
>
just try it... but with some dvds you will have to use 2-pass encoding, 
see the
archive for details

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>PS: when doing :vpass=1 can I use -o /dev/null as I saw in another mail?
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yes

>This should speed up the thing a bit, but TFM uses -o file.avi ...
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>BYtE,
> Diego.
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