vobcopy

[norman]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 06:50 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-30-07 at 13:05 +0100, norman wrote: 
> > > > If anyone has any experience of using vobcopy with Ubuntu I would be
> > > > very pleased to hear your opinion.
> 
> > > I use it all the time with the "-m" option to rip the whole contents
> > > of a DVD for later processing.  I've never had even the slightest
> > > problem with it in that role.
> 
> > Thank you very much for that and it is good to learn that Vobcopy can
> > work. Unfortunately, I have met a problem. The DVD in question was of a
> > television broadcast and made using Mythtv. Vobcopy produced a number of
> > files including three of the actual broadcast. One file appeared to be
> > of the whole broadcast and two files of parts of the broadcast. The two
> > part broadcast files were readable using Avidemux but the one of the
> > entire broadcast was not. The screen consisted of a large number of
> > horizontal, coloured lines.
> 
> I've never seen anything like that, sadly.  I would have thought,
> perhaps, that you're missing libdvdcss, but in that case you're not
> going to get anything at all (or at least that's what would make
> sense).

Thank you for trying to help but, I think, I have accidentally sorted it
out. Normally, I use Avidemux with all the settings as it came and I
decided to have a look to see what I could change and what the result
would be. So, after trying this and that I had a look at Preferences,
Input and selected 'Use libavcodec MPEG decoder'. The problem
disappeared and the video played normally. I do not understand why this
works I am just pleased that it does.

Norman