On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 21:16 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > But I do want a dvd converted into a mp4. Or an ISO into a mp4. It > seems a hard time doing it.
If you did the whole disc/iso, you'd get the studio promos, the copyright warnings, the adverts, the main feature, the shorts, all compiled into one huge video file. It'd be like playing video tape, with no way to jump to particular sections, you'd have to spool through. There are some file formats which support index markers, but you also need a player that knows to look for them (I don't which, if any, do). If you want just the main feature, you pretty much have to hand select the right VOB files to use. Or, use a tool which lets you select which title to use, and you'd have to figure out which title it was. VLC has a convert/save thing in the menu which brings up various options for batch conversion (I don't know if it'll take four input files and produce one output file). There's a whole disc option. You may be constrained by (a) needing pre-decrypted files, and (b) installing extra codecs. I used to use mplayer (command line) to play a particular title set and stream dump it to one output file. But I was doing things like copying my own DVD recorded video to a single file to put on a file server. That was *something* like: mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dumped.mpg That read the DVD drive, the first title on the disc, told it to dump the stream to a file, and told it what file to dump it to. If you needed to pick a particular DVD drive: e.g. mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd2 -dumpstream -dumpfile dumped.mpg If you wanted to work from a directory of VOB files: e.g. mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /path/to/directory/ -dumpstream - dumpfile dumped.mpg I guess you could point to an ISO file, instead. The VOB files are mpegs that can often be directly played as they are. Some players might choke on a .vob named file, but be perfectly happy with simply renaming the file. mencoder (mplayer encoder) can be re-encode files. But look at the man file for actual instructions. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 6.0.10-200.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Nov 26 16:53:11 UTC 2022 x86_64 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
