Playing and RIPPING DVDs with MPV

2026-02-06

mpv has great dvd support now. The information online is pretty old so I decided to take a note here myself.

Playback

mpv dvd://0

That's it. Change 0 to a other number for other stuff. it doesn't support the menu selection.

Ripping

mpv dvd://0 --stream-dump=output.vob

It will take a while, however the output is not in the correct format. You need ffmpeg to re-mux it

ffmpeg -i output.vob -c copy another.vob

These can be combined to one command:

mpv dvd://2 --stream-dump=/tmp/dump.vob && ffmpeg -i /tmp/dump.vob -c copy output.vob && rm /tmp/dump.vob

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