Comments on: HOWTO: Rip DVDs in MPEG-4 AVC (x264), multi audio, subtitles, Matroska

By: raas

raas — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:39:02 +0000

You need bitrate=X among x264encopts or newer mencoder versions won’t work. Otherwise, great doc, thanks!
I’ve finally managed to script this (e.g. the last step can be written as “mkvmerge -v -o title.mkv title.mp4 *.ac3 *.idx”).

By: somebody

somebody — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:53:37 +0000

thanks for writing a tutorial. I played around with it a lot and I noticed a crucial mistake in what you did:
You use the -nosound option with mencoder which can cause a lot of trouble, as audiofiles and videofiles can get a different playtime because of this. read more here:
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-docs/2005-September/006304.html
so please just use -oac copy option instead of -nosound.

By: Steven Jones

Steven Jones — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:19:37 +0000

Any idea why on my Ubuntu install I don’t have a dvd:// ? Mplayer fails to play a DVD also, says it can’t find dvd://1 When i load a DVD it mounts as /media/[dvdname]

By: Gazpatcho

Gazpatcho — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:50:15 +0000

Just 9 quick steps, eh? I had no idea it was that quick and easy to do.

I’m all over it. Thanks