Convert vob to avi

[Marek Pawinski]

toyfactory wrote:
> Marek Pawinski wrote:
> 
> 
>>I bought myself a music video today and tried using DVD-Rip to convert
>>it to avi so i can watch it off my hdd.
>>
>>The track rips but at the end of the rip i get a transcode could not
>>find frame error.
>>
>>So i have a lot of large vob files. I tried ffmpegs example but the mp3
>>sound gave me an error. Is there another way to convert vobs to avi ?
>>
>>"removing common factors from framerate
>>Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1"
>>
>>The above is from ffmpeg
> 
> 
> Hi Marek, I have a similar problem.  I was unable to install transcode
> so I used vobcopy to rip a DVD to a single large .vob file.  The I tried
> to use ffmpeg to convert the .vob file to a smaller .avi file like the
> example in the ffmpeg man page.
> 
> I think we get the error above because the version of ffmpeg in universe
> doesn't have mp3 support enabled by default.  I tried to download the
> source package and recompile with mp3lame support enabled but I couldn't
> get it to compile.
> 
> I think I need some help to compile my own ffmpeg from the source
> package.  Or perhap download a precompiled version with mp3lame enabled.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Nick
> 
Unfortunately compiling with the Debian package management system is 
beyond my scope, but you have given me something to think about and get 
into now. :-)