Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > I am looking for a reliable way of ripping a DVD onto hard drive. I have tried to use mencoder and transcode with and without GUIs, but I get rather > mixed results (mostly video is fine, but the sound is all jumbled). The re-encoding is not a requirement, I can keep the original VOBs as long as > there is some way to rip and use subtitles. I have tried and tried and to no avail. If someone has suggestions, tried and proven commands or any other > help on the subject I would truly appreciate. mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile ./bigmovie.mpeg dvd://$yourTitleNumber The output of this is playable via mplayer,xine,whatever as a big mpeg and the sound will be in sync.