On Saturday 22 July 2006 18:07, Eben King wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Bob Stia wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 July 2006 03:02, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> >> Bob Stia wrote:
> >>> Hello Sluggers
> >>>
> >>> I recently ripped a dvd in a new program that I now realize I cannot
> >>> use to do what I want it to. It gave me 5 vob's of 1GB each. I tried
> >>> to cat them together to use in another cli program but it seemed to
> >>> just run forever without ending. Can I cat these files together? and
> >>> what would be the command?? If possible!
> >>
> >> Assuming all of the .vob files are standard dvd mpeg2 video with
> >> identical encoding (vob is a structured wrapper for other dvd data as
> >> well, not all .vob files are mpeg2 video):
> >>
> >> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o output.mpg *.vob
> >>
> >> The "copy" output audio codec (oac) and output video codec (ovc) simply
> >> copies the source media directly into the output stream.
> >>
> >> That's the easiest and fastest way I've found. Works for pretty much any
> >> similar media.
> >
> > Thanks Ian,
> >
> > Worked a treat, Except that!!, it took all of the original English audio
> > and changed it to French !! Something to change in the oac-copy ?
>
> You got something against French? :-)
Noooooo.......but I don't understand it. Still blows my mind that it would
happen.
>
> -aid n where n!=1 maybe? Try samples until you guess correctly. "-aid
> 128" usually was my first guess.
Wellllllll...... being so confident of your expertise I just added the -aid
128 option and what to my wondering eyes should appear???? An mpg in
English!!
Tell me, where does that option come from ????? Out of the blue???? How does
one determine that the option is necessary??? (other than you don't
understand the language)
Anyway, thanks.... It worked. Now I have to try and burn it!
Bob S.
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