Remuxing DVD as MPEG 2

propagationofsound · 01-27-2012, 09:52 AM

I have a lot of DVDs I'd like to backup to my harddrive, but I unfortunately don't have very much processing power on my computer. What program could remux the VOB files into an MPEG container, whilst keeping all the video/audio/subtitle streams intact? I've used vobcopy to decrypt and mirror the DVD to my harddrive, but I'd like to have MPEG files by title to individually play. Command-line only please, I'm going to be running these in scripts and cron jobs.

teckk · 01-28-2012, 04:06 PM

.vob files are mpeg usually with ac3 audio.

If you want to transcode them then use ffmpeg or mencoder.

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whilst keeping all the video/audio/subtitle streams intact?

ffmpeg will do that, use -map
mencoder will do that use -aid and -sid

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html
http://linux.die.net/man/1/ffmpeg

I've used both for several years, and I'm still learning about them.
There are lots of tutorials and examples on the web for their usage.

pwalden · 01-31-2012, 12:03 PM

I use lsdvd and mencoder.

I use lsdvd to find the right title number. Usually it is the longest one. When in doubt I play the tile with mplayer to make sure it is not the director's commentary or what not. i.e. mplayer dvd://<title no>

Then I use the following mencoder command:

Code:

mencoder dvd://<tile no> -oac copy -ovc copy -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -o movie.mpg