On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 19:20 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
Try Mencoder (MPlayer)
mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate="1200" -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=128 -o dvd.avi
I think that still reads from the DVD drive. However I managed it using:
mencoder dvd://4 -o output.avi ... -dvd-device VIDEO_TS
The important option being -dvd-device, which can be a directory. You still have to figure out which is the "chapter" (4 in this case) but it's easy to do a test run to check as mplayer takes the same option. Of course there might be wierd and wonderful DVDs out there that require more fooling around, but this one worked for me.
You can see the man page for more options like zooming, scaling and subtitle stuffs.
man mencoder
There's also GUI frontends:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html#mencoder_frontends
None of which seem to be available in Fedora, and the ones I looked at are all at least 5 years old. I find it odd that there isn't more demand for this sort of thing.
Thanks for your help.
poc