Re: Quick mencoder question

[Matthias Czapla <dermatsch@gmx.de>]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 05:42:19PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> Quick question for anyone who has done this already. I have a DVD 
> which I would like to copy to my laptop for easy viewing, but the DVD 
> has multiple Titles. Mencoder seems to only be able to do one "title" 
> at a time, as opposed to its multiple "chapter" setting which is well 
> documented in the man page.
> 
> Any suggestion?

If you have the disk space, try vobcopy
(http://lpn.rnbhq.org/projects/c/c.shtml). It can create a (decrypted)
copy of the complete DVD. Or you can call mencoder in a simple loop to
encode each title to a seperate file:

for i in 1 3 6; do mencoder -o title_${i}.avi dvd://${i}; done

to convert titles 1, 3 and 6.

Regards
Matthias