[mythtv-users] Problem Ripping DVD

[jedi]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:22:11PM -0400, Tony Howard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been having problems using MythVideo to rip a dvd.  I'm using Fedora 9 
> with all updates, mythtv 21-fixes, and libdvdcss 1.2.10-1 from livna.  In 
> mtd.log, I'm seeing:
> 
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
> ...
> 19:28:56: transcode command will be: 
> transcode -i /var/lib/mythdvd/temp/BCBR_ALPHABET_POWER/vob/ -g 720x480 -M 
> 2 -V -j 0,8,0,8 -B 0,2 -y xvid -w 
> 1618 -o /video/BCBR_ALPHABET_POWER.avi --print_status 20 --color 0
> 19:28:56: job thread beginning to rip dvd title
> 2009-09-22 19:28:56.994 MSqlQuery: SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value 
> = 'MTDRipSize' AND hostname = 'station' ;
> 19:38:01: Error: DVDPerfectThread read failed for 165 blocks at 1474432
> 19:38:10: job failed: job dvd 5 1 7 0 -1 /video/BCBR_ALPHABET_POWER
> 
> I'm also seeing errors like this in dmesg:
> 
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2254161
> sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
> sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] 
> Info fld=0x16e7e0
> sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 6004608
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 750576

Based on this, I would suspect that your DVD drive is starting to fail.