Hi!

I have read some howto's about ripping DVD with mencoder/mplayer and I have a question about the command line. The following two lines are saving some audiostream from a DVD (substream 0x80) to a file called audio.80.ac3. I don't understand where the difference between these two lines are. Are there any differences? The resulting files are not the same- so there should.
Code:
mplayer dvd://$TRACK -aid 0x80 -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio.80.ac3
mencoder dvd://$TRACK -aid 0x80 -oac copy -ovc frameno -of rawaudio -o audio.80.ac3
Can anybody explain this?

The same thing with the video. One could do it like this:
Code:
mplayer dvd://$TRACK -dumpvideo -dumpfile video.m2v
mencoder dvd://$TRACK -nosound -ovc copy -of rawvideo -o video.m2v
Where is the difference?

I hope somebody can explain,
Greetings from Germany!