On 2/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stroller</b> <<a href="mailto:linux.luser@myrealbox.com">linux.luser@myrealbox.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><br><div><div>On 23 Feb 2007, at 15:47, Jared Greenwald wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span><font color="#000000">...</font></span></blockquote><span class="q"><blockquote type="cite"><span>in an attempt to working around the transcoded image problem mentioned above, I tried making an ISO image for playback. About 1/4 of the way into ripping, the mtd rip progress screen just closes and returns back to the main rip menu. Looking through the logs, I'm getting a TON of buffer I/O errors coming from my DVD drive. I've used this DVD drive for a few years, so its possible that its going bad, but it seems rather out of the blue. Has anyone else run into similar situations?
<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>"Buffer I/O errors" coming from optical drives are very common - I'd be surprised if no-one else on the list has experienced them. A comprehensive search of <
<a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/</a>> might be illuminating, although I have to confess that I'm not seeing terribly informative answers within the first couple of pages of search results (for a couple of different search terms). Possibly pasting the error message into Google would tell you more?
</div><div><br></div><div>But in order to establish that the problem is software you need to test with a different DVD drive & some different movies, too. DVD drives are VERY cheap these days, and I'd expect you can borrow one from a friend or another computer in your house; at a few years old I'd expect to see "dust on the lens" of any optical drive.
</div><div><br></div><div>Also, there are reports on here of recent movies which feature "copy protection". As I understand it they contain blank frames which a regular DVD player will just skip over, but which will cause a computer to loop indefinitely trying to read them (or something like that). This _sounds_ like the sort of error you _might_ see with such a movie, so it would be beneficial to try ripping a DVD you bought 2 or 3 years ago, in order to eliminate that possibility.
</div><div><br></div><div>Stroller.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>At this point, I've tried enough movies to realize that some just won't rip without some special intervention. My main concern at this point is fixing the problems with playback of rips.
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