[mythtv-users] DVD Rip/Transcoder questions

[Tim Tait]

James Pifer wrote:
> I finally got around to playing with ripping a DVD. I ripped a DVD but
> found playing the DVD with mythvideo, using the Internal player, lacked
> sound. Playing the same ripped video with vlc and the sound worked fine.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Also, you can supposedly rip a dvd with lesser quality so that the
> ending file size is significantly smaller. Where is that controlled? I
> assume it depends on the encoding and the size? 720x480, 480x480,
> (smaller?), etc? Is that what I see in mythtvsetup looking at the
> TRANSCODER settings?
> 
> I want to be able to watch the ripped videos with MediaMVP so I assume
> I'm limited because I have to use MPEG2. 
> 
> I would love to save some space with my recordings, but since I need
> them to stay MPEG2 do I have any options?
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
I had some problems with mythvideo playing audio on new rips (18.1) too. 
Either no audio, wrong audio track, or out of sync audio. I ended up 
configuring mythvideo to use xine which plays them perfectly.

Tim