[mythtv-users] MythTV and ripping "The Phantom Menace"
jedi
jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Sep 11 21:42:06 UTC 2008
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:58:46PM +1000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>
> This one time, at band camp, Dan Linder wrote:
> > I've been ripping and trans-coding my DVD collection to my MythTV box with
> > good success until tonight. I put in the DVD "Star Wars I - The Phantom
> > Menace" and it starts ripping the movie (just the movie, not the entire
> > .ISO image). It gets about 33% done (on the bar-graph) and then the rip
> > process seems to die and the screen says "nothing being ripped or
> > transcoded".
>
> That'd be the MythTV taste filter. It waits until a third through the
> movie, then decides George Lucas isn't going to get any better at
> writing scripts, then bails out. It's a protection mechanism, to stop
> you from throwing the remote at your expensive plasma screen.
>
> Try starting MythTV with the --han-shot-first switch to override the
> taste filter.
This is probably defective media.
I ripped this movie fine. I don't rip with MythTV though.
[deletia]
I have ripped about 600 disks. I have seen more issues from
poor manufacturing quality than actual copy protection. You
might want to try slowing down your drive or ripping on an
older machine.
I have a zombie laptop from the stone age that I use for DVDs
like that. It will usually work unless the disk is really
screwed up.
Some of these defects are mild enough that they won't manifest
on a real player (due to disk speed).
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