[mythtv-users] mythdvd rip quality can only be "perfect"

[Adam Felson]

I've two boxes, my older AMD athlon XP backend running mandrake and a
newer epia frontend running gentoo.

On the frontend mythdvd running with transcode built by gentoo 'emerge'
command, ripping works fine and there are several quality levels
available.

On the backend mythdvd running with mandrake, I've only got the option
to make "perfect" rips.  On that system I built transcode from cvs and
its version is at 1.0beta2.  According to the ./configure report I have
support for xvid4 and mythdvd's settings are set to use xvid instead of
divx.  Tempfile is set at an actual writeable directory.

Any idea why mythdvd only offers "perfect" rips?

Output of transcode ./configure:
Summary for transcode 1.0.0beta2 features:
*-*-*-*-*-*-* Core *-*-*-*-*-*-*
static AV-frame buffering                        yes
support for network (sockets) streams            no
DVD navigation support with libdvdread           yes
experimental xio | support for IBP storage       no | no
pvm3 support                                     no
ffmpeg libs headers                              -I/usr/include
ffmpeg libs libraries                            -L/usr/lib -lavcodec
-lm -lz -lpthread
ffmpeg libs build                                4718
ffmpeg libs version                              0.4.9-pre1
ffmpeg libs statically linked                    no
*-*-*-*-*-*-* Codec *-*-*-*-*-*-*
lame support (>=3.89) | ver                      yes | 396
mjpegtools dependent modules                     no
libdv dependent modules                          no
Ogg support | Vorbis support | Theora support    no | yes | no
Default xvid export module                       xvid4
liba52 audio plugin (>=0.7.3) | default decoder  no | no
avifile API support                              yes
ImageMagick dependent modules (>=5.4.3)          yes
libjpeg dependent modules | mmx accel            yes | no
liblzo dependent modules                         no
libxml2 dependent modules                        no
v4l/v4l2 modules                                 no
experimental lve support                         no
libmpeg3 dependent modules                       no
libfame video encoding plugin                    no
libquicktime dependent modules                   no
FFmpeg binary module                             no
bktr video device import module                  no
sunau audio device import module                 no
SDL support                                      no
GTK support                                      no
*-*-*-*-*-*-* Filter *-*-*-*-*-*-*
X11 dependent filter plugins                     yes
freetype2 dependent filter (text, subtitler)     yes
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-- 
Adam Felson <a.f.6 at pobox.com>