Appending video in Mencoder

[Guilllo]

Hi all !!

I've extracted my dvd with dvd-rip but the film is in 3 files.

How can i append them in mencoder in order that it would consider them as a single file.

Thanks

[evade]

Do you mean DVD::Rip? The frontend for transcode?

If so you have three vobs and no ifos?

if you are encoding with mencoder you are better off ripping with vobcopy or "mplayer -dumpstream" or something that will rip the entire structre of the dvd like dvdbackup.

In your current situation you can do this:

Make sure the vobs are the only files in the directory and run your mencoder commmand like this:

tccat -i /path/to/vobs/ | mencoder -

This is assuming you have Transcode installed. Simply concatenating the files would work but is not reccomended and could result in av desync.

[Guilllo]

Yes I mean Dvd::Rip

I used it because vobcopy extracted me the two angles interleaved together.

Method with tccat don't work


Thanks

[evade]

then rip the vob with this command:

mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd -dumpstream -dumpfile WholeMovie.vob dvd://1

This will rip The whole move with 1 angle and all audio tracks to a single vob file.


ps

with tccat you specify the directory name like:
tccat -i /home/me/rippeddvd
and not:
tccat -i /home/me/rippeddvd/*.vob


the whole command might look like:
tccat -i /home/me/rippeddvd | mencoder - -oac mp3lame -lampopts preset=standard -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=1000 -o file.avi

the - in the mencoder command is important as it tells mencoder to use the stdin.