Re: [dvd::rip] Beginning gets chopped off

[Adam Felson <a.f.9@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 12:20:15 am Michael Müller wrote:
> Hi Adam!
>
> Am 12.11.2008 um 02:14 schrieb Adam Felson:
> > I've had several movies where the beginning gets chopped off,
> > typically about
> > 4-5 minutes.  If I rip/encode them in k3b, I get the same problem.
> > I don't
> > find the missing first 5 minutes on any other track.
> > Two recent examples are  "Speed racer" and "Sex in the City: The
> > Movie"
> > Any ideas?
>
> I had the same problem and think that it has to do with some sort of
> copy protection. I also had rips where there was a big offset of
> video and audio.
>
> My work-around for these issues is to use VLC to stream the movie
> into a PS stream and than transcode this stream with the settings
> (scaling, crop sizes, etc.) that I get from dvd::rip.

Can you give me a typical vlc command to dump out the stream?
I can turn off video and audio output with --vout dummy and --aout dummy, but 
I can't seem to get '--sout file/ps:filename.vob' to do anything.  It never 
saves anything to a file.

Thanks.