-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 04:36:49PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-05-29 at 16:25, hob...@poukram.net wrote: > > > <to...@tuxteam.de> writes: > > > >> You can try (caution: untested!) something like > >> > >> ffmpeg -i <input file> -vn -acodec copy <output file> > >> > >> This would leave the audio format unchanged. By playing with the > >> "-acodec copy" you can change the output audio format. > >> > >> I'm sure other programs, like mplayer are also capable to do the > >> trick. > > > > yes this would work if I had a file as input. But I have a dvd, and > > ffmpeg seems unable to read properly from a dvd. Properly meaning > > selecting individual titels, chapters, and audio streams. > > > > So basically, what I'm missing is the ripping tool, something that > > can rip an individual chapter from a dvd title and pipe it to ffmpeg. > > Maybe try 'mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile FILENAME dvd://CHAPTERNUM', or > the same with 'dvdnav://' if you can get that working? > > Or 'mencoder -oac copy -novideo -o FILENAME dvd://CHAPTERNUM', > similarly, and possibly with an appropriate '-of' option if one is not > selected automatically? (Per the man page, you may need '-vc null' > instead of '-novideo', but I haven't seen that in practice.)
Yes, "mencoder" was the magic word I was looking for, mplayer's transcoder sibling. Thanks, Wanderer :) cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlksh4EACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaihgCaAj0SXMAKnyHFSa4HrmYcNUmP rgoAn1suqAKYG/5wukgLMDsDyGaJE+Dk =8vke -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
