[MPlayer-users] Possible to rip a video (mpg ) file in Mplayer?

[Nico Sabbi]

Parameshwara Bhat wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I rememeber as if I read somewhere on the net that Mplayer can also 
> rip a MPG(video) file from a VCD while playing it ? Could anybody 
> confirm it ? If correct how can that be done ?
>
> Parameshwara Bhat
>

it can, but not while playing it:

a plain transcoding:
mencoder -of mpeg -oac copy -ovc copy -o film.mpg vcd://

or a direct (and less clean) stream dump:
mplayer -dumpfile film.mpg -dumpstream vcd://