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

[Richard Whittaker]

Oh, I've ripped DVDs before, and it's worked fine, up until my last 
couple installs over the last 5 days.  It does perfect rips to vob files 
just fine - it's the transcoding a vob file to an avi that fails.

I did notice that a new transcode package was put on freshrpms on the 
16th - right around the time I started having problems, could there be a 
missing dependency (I'm missing encoders) in the new rpm or something?  
Also, it seems to be looking for shared libraries in a weird directory : 
/var/tmp/transcode/root/usr/lib/transcode - that looks like a build 
directory or something to me.  I've actually added /usr/lib/transcode 
(where the .so's it needs reside) to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and to 
ld.so.conf (and ran ldconfig) and it still couldn't find them - like 
it's hardcoded or something.

Richard Whittaker

Stephen L. Ulmer wrote:

>On 21 Apr 2004, rwhittak3 at adelphia.net said:
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>>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.
>>    
>>
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>You haven't ripped that DVD before?  I had a similar problem (could
>only rip a DVD at "perfect").  For me, it was because the file I was
>ripping to already existed.  Of course a "perfect" rip is a .vob, not
>a .avi, so the name was different.
>
>Myth would just refuse to rip the title (I guess it thought it was
>already complete).  There should really be an error message about a
>name conflict in that instance...
>
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