[mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd

[Allan Wilson]

Thanks for all the help on this Ryan. Do you know how mtd rips a movie if it 
doesn't use mencoder. Has anyone run in to any documentation on how Myth 
rips movies in detail. Any other experiences from anyone would be helpful.

Allan 

On 8/15/05, Ryan Steffes <rbsteffes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> 
> On 8/14/05, dan trevino <dantrevino at wrevolution.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:35 -0500, Allan Wilson wrote:
> > > Thanks for the link to the article to ripping manually. I am going to
> > > play with it to see if I can do it manually. Is anyone else having
> > > this problem or am I the only one? Since I am not finding that much 
> > > about this problem I am leaning towards it being my system but I can't
> > > see where I have setup anything incorrectly. Thanks for the help.
> > >
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > I had the same problem ripping one dvd (Bride and Prejudice...dont ask). 
> > 
> > 
> > Then tonight while watching (not ripping) Alexander from Myth, the 2nd
> > DVD automagically started playing with French language. I was able to
> > drop out and manually 'mplayer dvd:// -alang en ...' and everything was 
> > fine. After the it was over, I checked the 'Import DVD' option, and the
> > default track shows up as 'en ac3 6ch', so I assume I woulda had the
> > same problem with that disc as well.
> > 
> > My default play command is: 'mplayer dvd:// -fs -ao alsa -vo xv' 
> > 
> > dan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> The problem "seems" to be that transcode operates "dumbly" off audio 
> tracks, and the default language can switch between chapters. For ripping, I 
> don't know if there's anything you can really do about it. There doesn't 
> currently seem to be any way to have mtd use mencoder, and I don't see 
> anyway to set the language as opposed to the audio track for transcode. The 
> only good solution I know is to run mencoder manually and specify the 
> language you want via -alang or -aid.
> 
> Also, if you use mplayer, using -alang or -aid may prevent the problem 
> when you are just watching and not ripping. It certianly won't hurt anything 
> to add it to your default command line, unless of course you are 
> multilingual and don't always want to watch in the same language. (If you 
> watch many foreign films, it wouldn't hurt to add in a -sid or -slang for 
> subtitles either, just make sure you have a button on your remote set to 
> turn them off!)
> 
> -Ryan
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