[MPlayer-users] Help ripping old DVD showing errors

[Reimar Döffinger]

> On 10 Jul 2023, at 04:50, Jonathan Crowther <jmcrowther at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info, and your help. 
> 
> I’ve now abandoned MPlayer and found Clipchamp works for what I need to do. 

Just for the record or anyone finding it in a web search:
dvdnav:// might have worked better than dvd://
If it's a fairly simply authored DVD, just playing the individual .VOB files might
work fairly well, too.

Best regards,
Reimar

> On Jul 9, 2023, at 7:44 PM, cooleyr at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2023, 3:27 PM Jonathan Crowther <jmcrowther at msn.com> wrote:
> 
>> The resulting mpeg file is a pretty good rip of the DVD, but my players
>> (VLC, and Windows Media Player) think the chapter that I ripped is only 18
>> seconds long,
>> 
> 
> Likely just unusual timestamps in the VOB/MPEG-TS.  As mplayer isn't
> altering the container at all, it can't fix anything with -dumpstream
> 
> The timestamps can be fixed with mencoder or ffmpeg told to copy the video
> and audio and only remuxing the container.
> 
> 
> If I run this command instead:
>> 
>> "C:\Program Files (x86)\MPlayer\mencoder.exe" -dvd-device e: -o
>> dvdout5.avi -oac copy -ovc x264 DVD://1
>> 
>> The result is a playable AVI but it discards about half the frames, and
>> leaves a low-quality video
>> 
> 
> 
> You have to tell mencoder what bitrate to use for the video (or perhaps crf
> with x264) to select the quality you want.
> 
> Assuming an NTSC DVD (North America) you also need: -ofps 24000/1001
> And you may need pullup or pp=lb.
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