ripping DVDs

[alan]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:

> David Vernon wrote:
>> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile ./bigmovie.mpeg dvd://$yourTitleNumber
>>
>> The output of this is playable via mplayer,xine,whatever as a big mpeg
>> and the sound will be in sync.
>
> What about the subtitles?

Mount the dvd and use:

vobcopy -m

That will copy (and decrypt if you have libdvdcss installed) to a local 
directory.

I have used it with subtitled discs and it preserves the subtitles and 
menues.

You can use xine to play it by giving it the path to where the VIDEO_TS 
directory was written.

xine dvd:///path/to/disccopy

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