<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 23 Feb 2007, at 15:47, Jared Greenwald wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">...</FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">in an attempt to working around the transcoded image problem mentioned above, I tried making an ISO image for playback. About 1/4 of the way into ripping, the mtd rip progress screen just closes and returns back to the main rip menu. Looking through the logs, I'm getting a TON of buffer I/O errors coming from my DVD drive. I've used this DVD drive for a few years, so its possible that its going bad, but it seems rather out of the blue. Has anyone else run into similar situations? <BR></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"Buffer I/O errors" coming from optical drives are very common - I'd be surprised if no-one else on the list has experienced them. A comprehensive search of <<A href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/</A>> might be illuminating, although I have to confess that I'm not seeing terribly informative answers within the first couple of pages of search results (for a couple of different search terms). Possibly pasting the error message into Google would tell you more? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But in order to establish that the problem is software you need to test with a different DVD drive & some different movies, too. DVD drives are VERY cheap these days, and I'd expect you can borrow one from a friend or another computer in your house; at a few years old I'd expect to see "dust on the lens" of any optical drive.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also, there are reports on here of recent movies which feature "copy protection". As I understand it they contain blank frames which a regular DVD player will just skip over, but which will cause a computer to loop indefinitely trying to read them (or something like that). This _sounds_ like the sort of error you _might_ see with such a movie, so it would be beneficial to try ripping a DVD you bought 2 or 3 years ago, in order to eliminate that possibility.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Stroller.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>