I don't own a tv so I watch all of my DVDs on my computer. I want to backup my dvds to single-sided DVD-Rs and use and abuse those instead of the originals. First, my system recognises 4.7Gb DVD-R disks as 4.2GB disks. Most of my DVDs are larger than this. I want to try to avoid re-encoding my DVDs whenever possible to preserve the original quality. Many of my disks have alot of extra content that can be droped.
Now, here's the confusing part. When I ripped "Big Fish" using vobcopy the resulting files are larger than 4.2Gb. When I ripped that same DVD using mencoder(see below), the file was small enough to fit on a disk but it aparently did not copy any "seek" information. Also, the resulting avi file would only play in mplayer. I used the following command:
note: I don't have internet at home and am submitting this post from somewhere else. I am 99% shure this is the command I used. Unless mencoder complained I would not have passed any additional arguments.Code:mencoder dvd://1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o Big_Fish.avi
1) Is all that extra data (i think about 500MB or so) seek information? It looks like vobcopy uses mencoder to rip the DVD.
2) How can I rip this DVD into an AVI container, with seek information, that can also be played using Totem(xine, I belive)
Thanks!
- Florian
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