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

[Julian Mayer]

Am Freitag, 11.07.03, um 03:04 Uhr (Europe/Vienna) schrieb D Richard 
Felker III:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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?
>

of course title 1 (or whatever on DVDs that don't work) is the main 
movie.
of course i tested this with playing "mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device 
/dev/rdisk5 "
i wouldn't bother the list with this otherwise ;)
thanks, julian