[MPlayer-users] -dumpfile with dvd:// - determine output filesize?

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Phil Rhodes wrote:
> > mplayer -dumpfile dvd://1 will copy the content of the files
> >  VTS_01_1.VOB VTS_01_2.VOB VTS_01_3.VOB .... VTS_01_n.VOB
> > just sum the size of such files in order to have a good guess
> > of the dumped files size.
> 
> Thanks - I didn't know the naming convention worked that way.

And otherwise dvdbackup or vobcopy might be more suitable for your task
and maybe include a status bar already.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger