DVD::RIP... How to transcode?

[Hidalgo]

Hello all,
I tried to rip a DVD using this HOWTO: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DVD-Ripping.
I configured dvd::rip and I ripped the longest track (I didn't the first track, even though the howto says that is to be ripped, because my dvd::rip said that there might be a problem since the track is 10 thousands frames, but only one is being ripped...). Anyhow the longest track is gone; vob files were stored in the tmp directory I chose, I configured the tab clip & zoom, the subtitles one and... here we are in the transcode.
I used the OGG container and xvid4 (choosing options as said in the howto). I used 3 x700 MB targets media, and choose MP3 (or Vorbis, I had many tries...). The "Calculate Storage" said that there are about 1800 MB of video and 200 of audio. Then I clicked on TRANSCODE (and in other tries on Transcode + Split)... It started encoding, and it took hours (2-3 hours).
While encoding, I used the shell command "df"... and as far as I saw, only a fhew megabytes of hard disk were being used... and in the end (100% done), there is ony one file.ogg, 150 megabytes long, and if I try to play it, mplayer says "no video".
What's happening? Why there is no output?
Here is the last part of the log (something like a fhew moments before starting transcoding, and using divx5... I tried them all.):

Job 'Transcoding video - title #1, single pass' failed.

Executed command: mkdir -m 0775 -p '/tmp/rip/wnd/tmp' && cd /tmp/rip/wnd/tmp && dr_exec transcode -H 10 -a 1 -x vob -i /tmp/rip/wnd/vob/001 -w 1439 -b 192,0,0 -s 1.231 --a52_drc_off --use_rgb -k -f 25 -j 55,5,55,5 -Y 4,0,2,0 -Z 720x406 -y divx5 -o /tmp/rip/wnd/avi/001/WakingNedDevine-001.avi --print_status 20 && echo DVDRIP_SUCCESS

Last output was:


transcode v0.6.14 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
tc_memcpy: using mmxext for memcpy
[import_vob.so] v0.6.0 (2003-10-02) (video) MPEG-2 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM | (subtitle)
[export_divx5.so] v0.1.8 (2003-07-24) (video) DivX 5.xx | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM
tc_memcpy: using mmxext for memcpy
tc_memcpy: using mmxext for memcpy
Audio: using new version
No Lame support available!
[transcode] warning : (encoder.c) audio export module error: init failed
[transcode] (probe) suggested AV correction -D 0 (0 ms) | AV 0 ms | 0 ms
[transcode] auto-probing source /tmp/rip/wnd/vob/001 (ok)
[transcode] V: import format | MPEG-2 (V=vob|A=vob)
[transcode] V: AV demux/sync | (1) sync AV at initial MPEG sequence
[transcode] V: import frame | 720x576 1.25:1 encoded @ 16:9
[transcode] V: clip frame (<-) | 710x466
[transcode] V: zoom | 720x406 1.45:1 (Lanczos3)
[transcode] V: clip frame (->) | 720x400
[transcode] V: rgb2bgr | yes
[transcode] V: bits/pixel | 0.200
[transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 25.000,0
[transcode] A: import format | 0x2000 AC3 [48000,16,2] 192 kbps
[transcode] A: export format | 0x55 MPEG layer-3 [48000,16,2] 192 kbps
[transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 25.000,3
[transcode] A: bytes per frame | 7680 (7680.000000)
[transcode] A: adjustment | 0@1000
[transcode] A: rescale stream | 1.231
[transcode] V: IA32 accel mode | sse (sse 3dnowext 3dnow mmxext mmx asm C)
[transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 720x576
[import_vob.so] tccat -i "/tmp/rip/wnd/vob/001" -t vob -d 0 -S 0 | tcdemux -a 1 -x ac3 -S 0 -M 1 -d 0 | tcextract -t vob -a 1 -x ac3 -d 0 | tcdecode -x ac3 -d 0 -s 1.000000,1.000000,1.000000 -A 1
[import_vob.so] tccat -i "/tmp/rip/wnd/vob/001" -t vob -d 0 -S 0 | tcdemux -s 0x81 -x mpeg2 -S 0 -M 1 -d 0 | tcextract -t vob -a 0 -x mpeg2 -d 0 | tcdecode -x mpeg2 -d 0
[transcode] critical: failed to init encoder
sh: line 1: 24055 Broken pipe tccat -i "/tmp/rip/wnd/vob/001" -t vob -d 0 -S 0
24056 | tcdemux -s 0x81 -x mpeg2 -S 0 -M 1 -d 0
24060 | tcextract -t vob -a 0 -x mpeg2 -d 0
24061 | tcdecode -x mpeg2 -d 0
sh: line 1: 24051 Broken pipe tccat -i "/tmp/rip/wnd/vob/001" -t vob -d 0 -S 0
24052 | tcdemux -a 1 -x ac3 -S 0 -M 1 -d 0
24053 | tcextract -t vob -a 1 -x ac3 -d 0
24059 | tcdecode -x ac3 -d 0 -s 1.000000,1.000000,1.000000 -A 1

Any Ideas?
Use flags are exactly as requested in the howto...

P.S. The output is identical to another post, but I didn't solve adding encode, a52....

[Beetle B.]

Did you try some other codecs (video)?
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Beetle B.

Please update the table of equivalents.
A Firefox guide.

[pigeon768]

It should be ogm, not ogg. Ogm is the container for video, ogm is the derivative container for video.

[Hidalgo]

Allright, using avi/ffmpeg it works... anyhow subtitles for avi must be hardcoded (that is... subtitle can't be removed), and avi bigger than 2 GB has got problems with audio desync. I think ogg/xvid4 should be the best... but it doesn't work.
As far as I saw, some packages (such as subtitleripper or media-video/xvid4conf) are softmasked on amd64 and I had to emerge them by hand, modifying packages.keywords... maybe there are other packages that were not emerged as dipendence by typing "emerge transcode dvdrip libdvdread libquicktime libmovtar".... but I cannot figure out wich ones since all guides I found only say that "dependencies will be satisfied by the emerge tool"

[Kryptonite]

Hi..

I'm not quit sure what r u trying acheive by transcoding to ogg.. anyway I thought this might help..

If I want rip a retail dvd which I can't copy due to their large capacity, I use dvd::rip only to rip the movie title off the disk on to the hard drive. I do not clip and transcode using dvd::rip. I use the original VOB files saved on the disk.

The following command allows me to transcode the VOB files strait in to DVD compatible .m2v/.ac3 files.

[Beetle B.]

[beandog]

[tuxicated]

Maybe you can also give this tool a try:

http://dvdripomatic.sourceforge.net

It uses MEncoder to rip directly off the DVD to XviD/AC3 or XviD/MP3.