[mythtv-users] mythdvd & transcode

Bill Toner bill at forefronttechnologiesinc.com
Fri Nov 26 17:15:50 UTC 2004


I'm having a bit of trouble with mythdvd rip settings. I've got a vob file
from my Spiderman 1 DVD that has no sound, using the "perfect" quality
setting, but the video seems to have worked. Trying to make an "excellent"
quality rip gives me this output in my mtd.log file:

transcode command will be: transcode -i /var/lib/mythdvd/temp/Spiderman/vob/
-g 720x480 -f 0,1 -M 2 -V -y xvid,null -o /dev/null --print_status 20 --color
0 -R 1,twopass.log

Why is the audio format set to null? (-y vidformat,null) How do I change this
to something a bit more hearable??

Why is the output of tis transcode set to /dev/null? (-o /dev/null) How do I
change this to something more existable??

How do I get it to output to xvid4 instead of just xvid?

Searching the net has given me a couple very vague hints that I can make any
transcode setting using the transcode table. The README-database file has
some very vague hint about this, but reading the mentioned dbcheck.cpp file
wasn't very helpful to me as I don't know SQL, and my C is pretty darn rusty.
(No, I never got to learn C++) Is there a "Transcode Settngs for Mythtv via
SQL tables For Dummies" HOWTO out there someplace that google can't find for
me? It's just that I'm having to cope with learning Linux, Gentoo in
particular this round, Apache, php, ivtv, nvidia, xorg.conf, alsa, ssh,
samba, cygwin (for the heck of it for remote access to this myth box as well
as another gentoo box destined for more productive things), lirc (which is
the other things that doesn't seem to work yet), and SQL, as well as whatever
other things I can't name at the moment. It's a bit much to soak up all at
once, and there doesn't seem to be any real documentation for "the rest of
us" about ripping DVDs in mythdvd via transcode and controlling the settings
to a significant degree...

I appreciate any help.

Bill


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