[mythtv-users] Troubleshooting failing DVD rips

[Jeff Stockett]

You could try using mplayer to dump the DVD to verify whether it is a drive problem, disc problem, or transcode problem (which is what mythdvd uses I think).

$ mplayer dvd://n -dumpstream -dumpfile test.vob

If that works, then likely it is a problem with transcode/mythdvd.  Note that the dvd://n - n needs to be replaced with the title number of the main movie - usually it is 1.

----- "Matt" <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Anduin Withers <awithers at anduin.com> wrote:
> > > > > BTW - I'm running current SVN from a few days ago, but have
> seen this
> > > > > problem pop up over the past month, maybe two.  Before that -
> any
> > > > > problems were few and far between.
> >
> > There have been no real changes to mtd for some time.
> >
> > > 12:16:50: launching job: job dvd 2 1 -1 1 -1
> /mythtv/media/videos/DVDVIDEO
> > > 12:16:50: Using DVD source: /dev/dvd
> > > 12:16:50: ISO DVD image copy to: /mythtv/media/videos/DVDVIDEO
> > > 12:25:03: job thread finished copying ISO image
> > > 12:25:05: job finished successfully: job dvd 2 1 -1 1 -1
> > > /mythtv/media/videos/DVDVIDEO
> > >
> > > However, it didn't completely finish.
> >
> > How? That message "job thread finished copying ISO image" happens at
> the
> > very end of the copy process, given the timestamps it seems unlikely
> that
> > you ended up without an .iso file.
> >
> > --
> > Anduin Withers
> 
> Anduin -
> 
> Thanks for you reply, actually... I ended up with an iso, but it was
> only a couple of gigs instead of ~8GB.  It was working for me with no
> problems a couple of months ago.  I upgrade to latest SVN every
> couple
> of weeks, and I've noticed lately that it seems to work less and
> less.
>  I need to eliminate my drive as the problem, but unfortunantly,
> nothing in the logs is telling me anything useful.  The even stranger
> thing is that it'll stop on it's own in the same spot (unique per
> disc), every time I try to run it on a disc.  It doesn't matter if
> it's a new disc, or not.  It's not because the disc itself is
> scratched or dirty.
> 
> Thanks!
> Matt
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