[MPlayer-users] Dumping VOBSub

[Jeff Clagg]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:37:03AM -0700, Larry Reznick wrote:
> I have a slow DVD drive on my notebook computer. While I'm traveling I'd 
> like to watch a DVD. My DVD drive can't keep up when playing directly 
> from it. I found that if I dump the VOB file to the hard drive using 
> "mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile filename.vob" I can play it back 
> without trouble. However, I want to get subtitles.

I personally don't like the dumpstream method. I use dvdbackup to just
copy the entire dvd filesystem.