[MPlayer-users] making a vcd from certian chapters

[ronnie escobedo]

I've been using mplayer for over a year now to view dvds on my laptop and 
make audio cds from my concert dvds. I think this is a fabulous program.
Just recently I began to dabble in making vcd's. I've encountered some 
problems but nothing I wasn't able to resolve from reading the mailing list.
I use the following on fedora core 2

mplayer-1.0pre4-4
mencoder-1.0pre4-4
vcdimager-0.7.14-1.1.fc2.fr.1.fc2.dag
mjpegtools-1.6.2-3.1.fc2.dag
mjpegtools-devel-1.6.2-3.1.fc2.dag


One thing I would like to do is create a vcd from certain chapters on a dvd. 
I wasn't able to find this information on the list. I am assuming that I 
would have to transfer the chapters to the hard drive first. I've done this 
using the following commands:

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/cdrom -chapter 1-4 -dumpstream -dumpfile 
partOne

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/cdrom -chapter 10-12 -dumpstream -dumpfile 
partTwo

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/cdrom -chapter 21-24 -dumpstream -dumpfile 
partThree


I then try and create the vcd using the following command:

mencvd MyVcd -vnorm -vfr 4 -noburn /home/vidFiles/*


I'd like to mention that I've been succesful at creating a vcd from an 
entire dvd by using:
mencvd MyVcd -vnorm -vfr 4 -noburn mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/cdrom

Would it work out if best if I created a vcd for each set of chapters then 
burn all the 'bin' and 'cue' files to a cd? Or would this scenario cause 
some conflicts?
The mencvcd script makes makiing vcds easy however it takes forever on my 
system. Is there another method or script that is recommended that will 
speed up the process.
A few more questions when I use dumpstream with mplayer it creates a raw 
video file, correct? If I were to transfer that file to a win system what 
kind of extention should I add to it?

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