Re: DVD ripping with DVD::Rip

From: Keith Clark (clarkphotography_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/02/03 

Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 04:46:24 GMT

On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 19:36:38 +0200, Andreas Tretow wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 09:30:32 +0000, Keith Clark wrote:
>
>
>> Any idea why DVD::Rip doesn't like to run unless as root? If I try to
>> launch the GUI as a user then it freezes but as root it's OK.
>>
>> Keith
>
> Could be a permissions problem, eg. the user doesn't have permission to
> access /dev/dvd, but it's hard to tell without output/error messages.
>
> Please try transcode from the command line and post the output here.
> Reg. your older question: Did you remember to install the DivX codec? I
> don't know whether it's packaged with the binary rpm distribution you
> installed, which I think is unlikely. I have just installed everything
> manually and it works fine with DivX and Xvid.
>
> You might want to try this test on the command line:
>
> $ transcode -i /dev/dvd -x dvd -V -y divx4 -j 16,0 -B 5,0 -s 4.182 -w
> 1000 -o test.avi
>
> (briefly: -i input -x importformat -y outputformat -j cut_border -B
> resize_video -s increase_audio_level -w video_encoding_bitrate -o
> outputfile)
>
> HTH
> Andreas

Andreas,

The command line test failed, here is what seems to be the most relevqnt
part of the output :

-----------
[export_divx4.so] WARNING: Unrecognized API version ID (20021024) returned
by DivX encore library: Making a guess that it's a 5.x-style interface
(please report this message and your DivX library version to the transcode
developers) [export_divx4.so] DivX 5.x libraries detected. (encoder.c)
video export module error: init failed critical error: failed to init
encoder - exit codec open error
--------------

Exporting as Xvid works fine. Extremely well, in fact. I'm very impressed
with the quality.

The "freezing" when running DVD::Rip as a user went away when I installed
the Ximian Gnome packages so perhaps I had a corrupted library. There
didn't seem to be any permissions issues.

Keith

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