DVD not ripped

[andrew]

I think I fixed it. I don't have any "problem" DVDs here so I need some help testing. Test this on DVDs where the main movie is not track one. Also find a disk with at least one track that is LESS then one second. This seems to be what was causing the problem before. makemkv ignores these and doesn't even register them if minlength=0 is set.




avalx, Please update to the latest code and try to rip your DVD again. Then report the results.

[avalx]

All,


here are the latest findings.


After update the right title (longest) is ripped . One minor point though – in the log it says that the main movie only is going to be ripped but the track number is incorrect: 1 instead of 5:

Ripping BABY_SNAKES to /storage/movies...

Track info
--------------------
Track 1 is 48.170 seconds long.
Track 2 is 8.370 seconds long.
Track 3 is 67.020 seconds long.
Track 4 is 0.090 seconds long.
Track 5 is 9850.250 seconds long.
Track 6 is 114.090 seconds long.
Track 7 is 40.010 seconds long.
Track 8 is 40.140 seconds long.
Track 9 is 201.160 seconds long.

Ripping main movie only (track 1)

Also the conversion to mp4 is not done at all. I think this is due to those 2 lines in
docd.sh (wrong case?):

mv /storage/tmp/ripper.tmp/*.mkv /storage/movies/DVD_$DVDNAME.mkv
-----------------------------
/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i /storage/movies/dvd_$DVDNAME.mkv ........

[avalx]

I hope you figure it out - I gave up on editing!

[andrew]

I think we have it working now. Can you upgrade your box and test one more time?

[avalx]

Hm, I tried upgrade but nothing has changed:

Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
01/27/2011 00:05:34 - Upgrade complete. Please reboot your VortexBox.I even tried:
yum clean all
yum update
and again no upgrades??? I'll try again tomorrow morning.

[Ron Olsen]

That should be

yum clean all; yum update
with a ";" between the commands (";" is a command separator in the Linux shell)




If your system is up to date,

rpm -q vortexbox

should show

vortexbox-1.7-12.fc14.i686

[avalx]

Ron Olsen said:

That should be

yum clean all; yum update
with a ";" between the commands (";" is a command separator in the Linux shell)





Ron,


I know how to do things via command line. I put those commands in two lines but this nice formum sw made some "changes" again . I don't know why but it looks like it is even worse then it was before - I can hardly get a post to look normal. There are even problems with fonts that I didn't noticed days ago.


Anyway, my system reports the latest version and did not list any upgrades after the last post Andrew made (12:23 pm,January 26, 2011).

[Ron Olsen]

Andrew has just released vortexbox-1.7-13. There were significant changes to the DVD ripping code. Update your system and try ripping DVDs with this latest version.

[avalx]

Andrew said:

I think we have it working now. Can you upgrade your box and test one more time?





This is what is happening after the latest upgrade:




1. The longest track of the "problematic" DVD is correctly ripped, but still in the log is the wrong track number:

Ripping BABY_SNAKES to /storage/movies...


Track info
--------------------
Track 1 is 48.170 seconds long.
Track 2 is 8.370 seconds long.
Track 3 is 67.020 seconds long.
Track 4 is 0.090 seconds long.
Track 5 is 9850.250 seconds long.
Track 6 is 114.090 seconds long.
Track 7 is 40.010 seconds long.
Track 8 is 40.140 seconds long.
Track 9 is 201.160 seconds long.

Ripping main movie only (track 1)2. The conversion to mp4 started and finished OK, but some things are strange.
The ripping took around 22 min but the conversion took 2 hours to finish!!!!
And the resulting mp4 file is twice as big as mkv. Is this to be expected?
Ripping took 22 minutes and 48 seconds.
01/28/2011 10:43:10 - Converting .mkv to .mp4, this can take a while...
01/28/2011 12:56:32 - Done.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6833998888 Jan 28 10:43 BABY_SNAKES.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13826705408 Jan 28 12:56 BABY_SNAKES.mp4



P.S. I am not interested in mp4 conversion so this not a problem for me.

I would rather see the ability to compress the video.

[andrew]

avalx, Thanks again for your tireless work helping us test this. That track number (1) is the makemkv track number not the lsdvd track number. This is of course very confusing but as you can see it comes up with the right movie. I have changed it in the latest. If you can try again. It should come up with the right number now.


Encoding video is very processor intensive. That's why it takes so long. I encode all my videos to H.264. I tried doing this on my VortexBox Atom processor and it took 50 hours to encode one movie! I now do it on my i7 but it still takes over an hour with all 8 cores at 100%.


I agree that the mp4 created by VortexBox are larger than the original video I using ffmpeg to do the conversion with these options.


-vcodec mpeg2video -sameq


the -sameq option should make the movie the same size as the original. Not sure why this doesn't happen. Any ffmpeg experts out there?