[MPlayer-users] Ripping DVDs with the -dumpstream option

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Dom H <speedsix.lists <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> mplayer -dumpstream dvdnav://1 -nocache -dumpfile video.mpeg
> 
> This seems reliable although my very last rip was a foreign language
> film which the resultant file seemed to contain no subtitle tracks at
> all. Any ideas as to why this could happen? I'm guessing my output
> file extension determines the container format,

No, the input stream determines the container format for -dumpstream, in case of
a dvd it is mpeg.

Carl Eugen