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

[Stefan Baehre]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:05:13AM -0800, rcooley wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Yes, and there are many of those mismastered DVDs. Chapters aren't
even always beginning at I-VOPs, so you loose frames when starting
encoding at such a chapter. I always used avidemux to split the AVI
manually after encoding.