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

[Richard Whittaker]

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