[MPlayer-users] mencoder fails with some DVDs (resulting movie just 36k big)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:45:17AM +0200, Julian Mayer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hello all
> mencoder doesn't work with some DVDs:
> i'm doing normal 3-pass encoding (10 sec preview):
> mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/rdisk5 -endpos 10 -ovc frameno -o  
> frameno.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3
> mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/rdisk5 -endpos 10 -ovc lavc -lavcopts  
> vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -oac copy -o /dev/null
> mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/rdisk5 -endpos 10 -ovc lavc -lavcopts  
> vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2 -oac copy -o movie.avi
> but on some DVDs the resulting movie just 36k big
> interesting is that normally the last Position output for a 10sec  
> preview is:
> Pos:   9.9s    251f ( 0%)   0fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [774:114]
> but on a non working DVD it is:
> Pos:   0.1s    499f ( 0%)   0fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
> I've attached the whole log for a non working DVD
> could anyone tell me if this is a known bug or if i'm doing something  
> wrong...
> otherwise i'll file a bug report
> thanks in advance, julian

Sounds like title 1 is not the movie, but some stupid intro sequence
or whatnot. Why not try *playing* the dvd with mplayer first to figure
out which title you want?

Rich