[mythtv-users] Transcode issues at "excellent" quality setting

[Nick Fasano]

Hi everyone,

	I am going crazy trying to solve this problem with myth transcode 
daemon when trying to rip DVD's.  I believe I have all the proper 
settings in MythVideo and MythDVD (i.e. all the entries point to valid 
locations).  When I start an encode at "excellent" quality, mtd rips 
the dvd properly and the vobfile is created.  It then appears that the 
first pass is performed, as the twopass.log file is created and 
contains information.  The problem is that after the first pass, it 
thinks it's done and goes ahead and deletes the vob folder.  No movie 
file is created, no second pass is made.  Is this a known bug, or am I 
doing something wrong here?  It's interesting that "good" quality 
encodes seem to work fine (single pass).  Is there any way to go in and 
tweak the settings manually?

I'll post the mtd.log below.  Thanks for any info that might help.

Nick


mtd started at Wed May 19 01:30:15 2004
mtd is running on a host called localhost.localdomain
01:30:15: Waiting for connections/jobs
01:30:15: mtd is listening on port 2342
01:30:15: a client socket has been opened
01:30:17: DVD inserted: VERONICA_GUERIN
01:30:17:             : Title 1 is of type 2 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 2 is of type 2 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 3 is of type 2 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 4 is of type 2 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 5 is of type 2 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 6 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 7 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 8 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 9 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 10 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 11 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 12 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 13 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 14 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 15 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 16 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 17 is of type 4 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 18 is of type 2 (dvdinput table)
01:30:17:             : Title 19 is of type 2 (dvdinput table)
01:30:31: launching job: job dvd 1 1 2 1 -1 /media/video/VERONICA_GUERIN
01:30:31: transcode command will be: transcode -i 
/media/video/VERONICA_GUERIN/vob/ -g 720x480 -f 0,1 -M 2 -y xvid,null 
-A -N 0x2000 -o /dev/null --print_status 20 --color 0 -R 1,twopass.log
01:30:31: job thread beginning to rip dvd title
01:43:46: job thread finished ripping dvd title
02:46:37: job finished succesfully: job dvd 1 1 2 1 -1 
/media/video/VERONICA_GUERIN
07:54:13: a client socket has been closed