From 4ce66d65e28f283e0b4e03db6fa5b1c82bd93c65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gpoirier Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:19:42 +0000 Subject: How to handle broken/copy protected VOB files? git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@19504 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) (limited to 'DOCS/xml') diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml index 42dc1803a9..7adf4af8ae 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml @@ -987,6 +987,30 @@ mencoder input.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -o + + +How can I backup and encode a VOB file with a broken beginning? + + +The main problem when you want to encode a VOB file which is corrupted + +To some extent, some forms of copy protection used in DVDs can be +assumed to be content corruption. + +is that it will be hard to get an encode with perfect A/V sync. +One workaround is to just shave off the corrupted part and encode just the +clean part. +First you need to find where the clean part starts: + +mplayer input.vob -sb nb_of_bytes_to_skip + +Then you can create a new file which contains just the clean part: + +dd if=input.vob of=output_cut.vob skip=1 ibs=nb_of_bytes_to_skip + + + + I can't encode DVD subtitles into the AVI! -- cgit v1.2.3