[MPlayer-users] sound issues

[Steve Dibb]

Dave Henderson wrote:
> Gang,
>
>     I am trying to rip the ac3 audio from a dvd.  I have read the secion of the mplayer README regarding this issue.  It says to best way to rip and preserve the ac3 audio is to use the syntax:
>
>     mplayer source_file.VOB -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound.ac3
>
> so I tried it:
>
>     # mount /dvd
>     # cd /dvd/VIDEO_TS
>     /dvd/VIDEO_TS# mplayer VTS_01_0.VOB -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile /opt/rip/sound.ac3

Don't mount the dvd  (well, you can, just dont play files directly).  
Just use mplayer dvd:// -foo-arguments and you should be okay.

Steve