Re: [dvd::rip] Rip Stopped Short

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Pete wrote:
> Greetings!
>  
> I continue to get the dreaded "stopped short" message.
>  
> As seen in prior posts, I've turned off "sub title preview images" but
> continue to get the following message:
>  
> "It seems that transcode ripping stopped short.
> The movie has 130861.008 frames, but only 129482 were ripped. This is most
> likely a problem with your transcode/libdvdread installation, resp. a
> problem with this specific DVD"
> 
> Any thoughts?  Suggestions?
> 
> I've seen others with this nasty transcode problem but I've yet to see a
> definitive solution.   Here are the details of my Fedora Core 6
>...

I don't know any definitive solution, but here are some hints, which helped me 
in the past:

 - check if the DVD is scratched, dirty or otherwise damaged

 - check if the DVD is playable using a standard DVD-player

 - check if the DVD is playable with xine or mplayer
   always start mplayer from the command line and watch carefully what mplayer 
is writing to stdout

 - always check /var/log/messages e.g.:  I/O error, dev hdc, sector 829968

 - cd into the tmp directory and issue the last transcode command as found in 
the logfile
   from the command-line including a sufficient high debuglevel. Watch for any 
error message.

 - check if your transcoded movie is complete even though you got the "stopped 
short" message

 - use  mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream
   and
   dd if=stream.dump bs=2048 | dr_splitpipe -f .../tmp/dvd-001-nav.log 1024 
.../vob/001/dvd vob >& /dev/null

   sometimes it is necessary to skip the beginning:
   dd if=stream.dump  skip=100 ...

 - use ffmpeg instead of transcode

 - use AnyDVD or something similar to get the ripped vob-files.
   AnyDVD is able to handle some sort of copy-protection which transcode can 
not handle.

 - update the firmware of your DVD-drive

 - use another DVD-drive

 - buy another copy of this DVD


Edmund






















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