# HG changeset patch # User gpoirier # Date 1156317582 0 # Node ID f0d5b7aa1bac924fd377d254083b655bbbccf6fc # Parent dff394d0cdc774f1aab174b5ffb8ea597ee79aa2 How to handle broken/copy protected VOB files? diff -r dff394d0cdc7 -r f0d5b7aa1bac DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml Tue Aug 22 23:32:50 2006 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml Wed Aug 23 07:19:42 2006 +0000 @@ -989,6 +989,30 @@ +How can I backup and encode a VOB file with a broken beginning? + + +The main problem when you want to encode a VOB file which is corrupted + +To some extent, some forms of copy protection used in DVDs can be +assumed to be content corruption. + +is that it will be hard to get an encode with perfect A/V sync. +One workaround is to just shave off the corrupted part and encode just the +clean part. +First you need to find where the clean part starts: + +mplayer input.vob -sb nb_of_bytes_to_skip + +Then you can create a new file which contains just the clean part: + +dd if=input.vob of=output_cut.vob skip=1 ibs=nb_of_bytes_to_skip + + + + + + I can't encode DVD subtitles into the AVI!