[MPlayer-users] Re: mp3 pro for mencoder?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 02:23:15AM +0100, Amadeus wrote:
> > Never use cat *.VOB ...
> > It's a stupid windows way of doing things. Always use dvd:// syntax to
> > encode from dvds. Best is to use the original dvd, but if you INSIST
> > on using a copy on hd, use -dvd-device /path/to/vobs along with dvd://
> > rather than the *.vob mess.
> 
> Thanks for the tip! This reduces the audio and video scripts.
> 
> mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /home/amd/dvd -aid 128 -ao pcm -aofile audio.wav
> oggenc -q 5 audio.ogg
> 
> oggenc can handle stdin. Can mplayer in someway handle stdout, so I
> wouldn't have to write a huge wave to the diskdisc first?
> 
> I have read that /dev/stdout can't be used, as mplayer dumps all sort of
> things in there.

MPlayer can't use stdout, but you could use a fifo.

Rich