U have DVD.iso file and mount it on /mnt/dvdrom2 Then I try to rip with this command: $ mencoder -dvd-device /mnt/dvdrom2 dvd://1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o /pub/1.avi But it does not write index to output avi. Why? I tried -idx option, -forceidx - but it didn't help. Here is its output: MEncoder SVN-r22817 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52 (Family: 15, Model: 72, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. libdvdread: Attempting to use device /pube/_vid/1v-TMP/cartoon/_other/oc 2.iso mounted on /mnt/dvdrom2 for CSS authentication There are 26 titles on this DVD. There are 1 chapters in this DVD title. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: ru aid: 128. number of audio channels on disk: 1. number of subtitles on disk: 0 success: format: 2 data: 0x0 - 0xaa83800 MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 352x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 3000.0 kbps (375.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:352x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 80.0 kbit/5.21% (ratio: 10000->192000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== videocodec: framecopy (352x576 24bpp fourcc=10000002) audiocodec: framecopy (format=2000 chans=2 rate=48000 bits=16 B/s=10000 sample-1) Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Pos: 0.9s 22f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 89mb A-V:0.084 [0:80] Skipping frame! Pos: 1.2s 32f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 102mb A-V:0.083 [917:80] Skipping frame! Pos: 2.2s 56f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 118mb A-V:0.080 [916:80] Skipping frame! Writing index...16f (100%) 1260.62fps Trem: 0min 162mb A-V:0.039 [1100:80] Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Video stream: 1100.176 kbit/s (137522 B/s) size: 159046972 bytes 1156.520 secs 28916 frames Audio stream: 80.000 kbit/s (10000 B/s) size: 11565120 bytes 1156.512 secs