[mythtv-users] MythDVD transcoding question

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 03:44 pm, Joseph Caputo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK, I have MythDVD installed (from CVS of last Monday, 8/11), and I'm
> trying to rip a DVD.  If I do a 'Perfect' rip, it's fine -- I get a ~7GB
> MPEG-2 file, right in my MythVideo storage directory.  If I select
> 'Excellent' quality, after the rip it says 'Transcode is thinking...' for a
> short while (definitely not long enough to transcode a movie), then it just
> exits, and I have no file; nothing -- not even the temporary 'Perfect' rip.
>  I know that my 'transcode' installation works because I rip DVDs all the
> time with the (very nice) dvd::rip GUI package (which uses transcode).  I
> can see in the log & output that mtd & MythDVD are using dvdtranscode
> profile #2.  There are no error messages in the mtd.log, it just says it's
> finished.
>
> Any ideas on where to start?  I'm a bit late this week upgrading to latest
> CVS (usually do it every Monday), so maybe that will help, but I don't
> recall seeing anything on the -commits list for this (specifically,
> anyway).

Best place to start would be in mtd/jobthread.cpp and looking at the command 
line it generates for transcode 
(DVDTranscodeThread::buildTranscodeCommandLine) and then maybe look at some 
stuff in runTranscode() in the same file to see what it's doing in response 
to that..

Isaac