[MPlayer-users] problem ripping dvds with mencoder, slows then stops.

[Haas Wernfried]

hi,
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 03:17:18AM +0000, Farrell Farahbod wrote:
> im have successfully ripped many dvds with mencoder, and subsequintly 
> compressed them with mencoder as well. i jsut got two dvds, and they both 
> seem to not want to rip. they both play jsut fine on my tv's dvd 
> player...but with mencoder the ripping process slows to a crawl, and then 
> halts when the process is at about 30%. when the process halts, i cant even 
> kill mencoder. 
strange, how else does the system behave? is there any interesting output
on /var/log/messages or /var/log/everything/current (i/o errors, etc)?

> for one of the dvds, one time it ended with this: (the other times they jsut 
> locked up mencoder, and i couldnt even kill mencoder)
> 
> ...
> Pos:1850.9s  44378f (25%)  15fps Trem: 141min 4666mb  A-V:-0.040 [4985:448]
> Duplicate 1 frame(s)!!!
> Pos:1851.0s  44380f (25%)  15fps Trem: 141min 4667mb  A-V:-0.041 [4985:448]
> Duplicate 1 frame(s)!!!
> Pos:1851.1s  44381f (25%)  15fps Trem: 142min 4665mb  A-V:-0.041 [4985:448]
> Writing AVI index...
> Fixing AVI header...
> 
> Video stream: 4985.828 kbit/s  (623228 bps)  size: 1153652276 bytes  
> 1851.091 secs  44381 frames
> 
> Audio stream:  448.000 kbit/s  (56000 bps)  size: 103712000 bytes  1852.000 
> secs
> [root at farrell riptemps]#
hmmm, looks like a pretty high bitrate, is this intentional?

just an idea:
try ripping it first with -dumpstream and encode the dumped stream 
afterwards, maybe this helps locating the problem (is it the dvd or
the encoding process). may need some disk space, though ;)

good luck,
     wernfried

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