[mythtv-users] Cannot rip dvds at less than perfect quality

[Richard Whittaker]

I did a full reinstall tonight, following Jarod's guide word for word 
(again), and have exactly the same problem.  Again, this was working on 
a previous build.  Has something major changed in the last week or two 
in the apt packages?  Anyone else having this problem?  I've tried to do 
a bit of troubleshooting with transcode on the command line, but that's 
a serious beast, and I haven't had much luck yet.

Richard

Richard Whittaker wrote:

> Everything on my mythtv system works perfectly except dvd ripping.  I 
> can do a perfect rip, and it plays fine from the .vob file, but when I 
> try to do a rip on anything less than perfect, it fails.  It rips the 
> file to disk then hangs at the "transcode is thinking..." for a few 
> seconds, then quits (goes back to the "press '0' for a new rip" 
> screen).  When it fails, it removes the temporary directory and the 
> vob file, so I can't even really play with that outside of mythtv.
>
> "transcode" is the base transcode command, it is in the mythtv users 
> path, and I'm running v0.6.12.
>
> Neither the mythbackend.log file nor the output from running 
> mythfrontend seem to report anything interesting or relevant to this 
> problem, and the mtd.log file never gets created for the transcode.
>
> On my previous install, dvd rips worked properly, and I'm pretty sure 
> I didn't do anything differently.. although obviously I must have.  
> Most of the rips I have done previously play fine with my new install, 
> but one (Gladiator) does not - mplayer just hangs indefinately.
>
> Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Richard Whittaker
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