[mythtv-users] MythTV and ripping "The Phantom Menace"

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, Dan Linder wrote:
>    I've been ripping and trans-coding my DVD collection to my MythTV box with
>    good success until tonight.  I put in the DVD "Star Wars I - The Phantom
>    Menace" and it starts ripping the movie (just the movie, not the entire
>    .ISO image).  It gets about 33% done (on the bar-graph) and then the rip
>    process seems to die and the screen says "nothing being ripped or
>    transcoded".

That'd be the MythTV taste filter.  It waits until a third through the 
movie, then decides George Lucas isn't going to get any better at 
writing scripts, then bails out.  It's a protection mechanism, to stop 
you from throwing the remote at your expensive plasma screen.

Try starting MythTV with the --han-shot-first switch to override the 
taste filter.

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