Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 19498:f0d5b7aa1bac
How to handle broken/copy protected VOB files?
| author | gpoirier |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:19:42 +0000 |
| parents | dff394d0cdc7 |
| children | e59b6659d157 |
| files | DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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 @@ <qandaentry> <question><para> +How can I backup and encode a VOB file with a broken beginning? +</para></question> +<answer><para> +The main problem when you want to encode a VOB file which is corrupted +<footnote id='fn-corrupted-files-or-copy-protection'><para> +To some extent, some forms of copy protection used in DVDs can be +assumed to be content corruption. +</para></footnote> +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: +<screen> +mplayer <replaceable>input.vob</replaceable> -sb <replaceable>nb_of_bytes_to_skip</replaceable> +</screen> +Then you can create a new file which contains just the clean part: +<screen> +dd if=<replaceable>input.vob</replaceable> of=<replaceable>output_cut.vob</replaceable> skip=1 ibs=<replaceable>nb_of_bytes_to_skip</replaceable> +</screen> +</para></answer> +</qandaentry> + +<qandaentry> +<question><para> I can't encode DVD subtitles into the AVI! </para></question> <answer><para>