Hi,
I've just switched to linux RH9 and it's great. Worked out how to create vcds from vob's after a painstaken length of time. Anyways, i had ripped a number of dvd's to hard drive using smart ripper on a computer with a dvd player, then copied them to my linux box. I use mplayer to output a stream that mjegtools can use to create the vcd. My problem is when i try to encode them it only gets the first vob file and encodes that. I was looking at mplayer docs to try and find out how to make it read properly off my hard drive and i found this:

but in trying to symlink /dev/dvd to my /dvdfiles/ im having no luck. The command i use to symlink is : ln -s /dvdfiles/ /dev/dvd/

i have no dvd drive in this computer, thats why im trying to make it read of the hard drive.

below is the commands i use in my script:
( mplayer -alang en -noframedrop -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm -waveheader -v -osdlevel 0 $dvdFile) &

( cat - < stream.yuv | yuvscaler $yuvoptions | mpeg2enc $mpegoptions) &

$yuvoptions $mpegoptions are just extra command line arguments for each of the tools.



Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tim

you could encode files with mencoder, which is installed with mplayer. There are some nice frontends too.

VOB files can simply be merged:
The cat command has been invented to catenate files



ps. sorry for asking, but why would you want to do this:
This would be a little better, but it's still getting the "useless use of cat award":
I'd recommend this. It uses the input streams without running another program to supply it.

Thanks for the reply.

I never thought of putting them into one big vob file.

the reason i use cat - is because stream.yuv is a named pipe file which takes the video output from mplayer and puts it back out so that cat can grab it. But i could probably do it your way too.


Thanks heaps.