[MPlayer-users] Re: correct order for pp filtering in vop

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:40:26PM +0000, Chris Phillips wrote:
> bearing in mind that i cut people down in a second for doing this to me at 
> linuxquestions.org, i asked a while back about copying dvd's to hard disk 
> to use as a "cache" for my acidrip program, but can't seem to create a 
> file that is seekable. -dumpstream provides no output info which is crap, 
> but liveable i guess, BUT seeks 25% too far, while just copying (-ovc 
> copy) causes the mpeg stream to fail completely when trying to seek 
> anywhere. can you suggest somethign that's actually going to work? feel 
> free not to of course!

Please keep mplayer mail on the list! If everyone I replied to on the
list mailed me personally, my personal mail inbox would be overflowing
all the time (even more than it already is!).

With that said, the file -dumpstream produces is perfectly good; it's
just that mplayer can't seek correctly in DVDs to begin with. You'll
notice the same problem if you try to seek with mplayer -dvd 1 -ss ...

The best solution is simply not to use seeking for ripping DVDs.
There's a perfectly good -chapter option for this which will seek
right to chapter boundaries, so you don't cut your rip in the middle
of a scene (which is super-lame). Unlike most options, -chapter also
works with -dumpstream, so you can do something like:

mplayer -dumpfile part1.vob -chapter 1-10 -dvd 1 -dumpstrea
mplayer -dumpfile part2.vob -chapter 11-20 -dvd 1 -dumpstream

The other option is to repair mplayer's seeking so it actually works,
but that's probably best done after the demuxer layer is rewritten
(planned to happen eventually, but not soon).

Rich