[MPlayer-users] VCD to movie file

[Aaron Peterson]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 11:37, Fabien Wernli wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:29:40AM -0500, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> > I have some VCDs that I want to convert to single movie files, I don't
> > care what the format is, but I don't want to lose any more quality
> > because the VCD video is already about as bad as I can stand.  I also
> > want others to be able to play the movie from windows media player.
> > 
> > I was going for just copying the audio and video stream to filename.mpg
> > with the following command:
> > 
> > mencoder vcd:// -of mpeg -oac copy -ovc copy -o filename.mpg
> 
> Use the following instead:
> 
> mplayer vcd:// -dumpfile vcd.mpg -dumpstream

This seems to cause Windows Media Player to generate the following
helpful error message:

Windows Media Player encountered an unknown error.

bummer :)
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