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

[Richard Whittaker]

Ooops, one correction.  That funny directory it's looking for shared 
libraries in is /var/tmp/transcode-root/usr/lib/transcode (no / between 
transcode and root).

Richard

Richard Whittaker wrote:

> 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:
>>  
>>
>>> 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.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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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