[MPlayer-users] Ripping a DVD to 2x 700MB AVIs with Mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:05:13AM -0800, rcooley wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 14:00:25 -0500
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Yes, always break multidisc encodes at chapter boundaries. This will
> > make sure you break at a point that doesn't mess up encoding,
> 
> And will often leave you with nasty audio and video artifacts...  Not to
> mention that chapter boundaries ace commonly right in the middle
> sentences of dialog...  Sometimes splitting a word in half.


Never seen this. You must have horribly mismastered DVDs, in which
case there's no way to split them correctly with MPlayer G1 without
using many TB's of temp space. You should just try to find a good
chapter boundary...

> Not to mention that chapter boundaries aren't layed out well to
> give you two equal size/length files.

This really doesn't matter. The goal is not to make both 'halves' X/2
minutes, where X is the length of the movie. The goal is to split it
enough that you can fit excellent quality video along with AC3 audio,
which means you can deviate A LOT from the exact middle. Even 1/3 and
2/3 would be ok.

Rich