[MPlayer-users] dumpstream with some DVD: infinite loop?

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Thursday 13 December 2007 18:10:06 Matt Garman ha scritto:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:32:11PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > Il Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:33:40 Matt Garman ha scritto:
> > > I like to pull the main feature off DVDs, usually using
> > > something like this:
> > >
> > >     mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dumpfile.vob
> > >
> > > This generally works perfectly.
> > >
> > > However, on occassion, this process does not complete on its
> > > own; it runs either until the hard drive is full, or the
> > > process is killed manually.  Has anyone else seen this?  I'm
> > > guessing it's a peculiarity of the way the DVD was mastered. 
> > > Any workaround?
> >
> > unlikely. what title is it?
>
> Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
>

Are you sure the file keeps on growing? or is it simply blocked
because of bad sectors? dmesg will tell you if there are
reading messages; otherwise try to install dvdnav as explained in
DOCS/tech/dvdnav-howto.txt and reconfigure mplayer
with --disable-dvdread-internal, then rerun the usual command.
Is there any difference?