Comment 2 for bug 429089

Marc,

Thanks for picking this up! Let me give you same background on this.

I'm new to the Ubuntu family and relatively new to Linux, so bear with
me. Most of my Unix experience is with NetBSD (where I did some
development work) and more recently with FreeBSD. Last year I decided
to tackle Linux and try and build a PVR system based on MythTV. I
started with OpenSuse and actually had a working system on an old PC.
That lead me to buy new hardware to build a 64-bit, high performance
system. That's when the trouble began since OpenSuse didn't support
the new HW and I had to work with pre-release kernels and a distinct
lack of pre-built packages. I did get MytthTV with MythVideo working
and ran into the problem of parameters mismatches with mtd and
transcode there. I posted on their forums but never got much of a
response and finally tracked down the problem myself. I submitted a
bug report to the transcode team and they came up with their own fix
that didn't work (for me) with MythTV 0.21 but probably worked with
0.22. I finally gave up on OpenSuse and switched to Kubuntu a few
months ago. I have been playing with the Karmic bleeding edge stuff
so I expect problems. Over the last few days enough of the MythTV
modules were posted that I was finally able to get it up and running
again, and that's when I noticed the similar problems with transcode.
It exits when invoked by mtd. If I copy the command line mtd invoked
it with and run it from the command line, it reports that "-1" isn't a
recognized option. This is what's in the mtd.log:

  15:36:10: launching job: job dvd 1 1 6 1 -1 /video/mythtv/Videos/My
Name is Nobody
15:36:10: transcode command will be: 'transcode -i "/video/mythtv/temp/
My Name is Nobody/vob/" -g 720x480 -M 2 -1 -X2,0 -y xvid,null -A -N
0x2000 -o /dev/null --color 0 -R 1,twopass.log'
15:36:10: job thread beginning to rip dvd title
15:40:13: job thread finished ripping dvd title
15:40:15: Error: Exiting runTranscode(1) transcode exit code: 1

Here is the result of running the transcode line from the command line:

mythtv@bandit:~$ transcode -i "/video/mythtv/temp/My Name is Nobody/
vob/" -g 720x480 -M 2 -1 -X 2,0 -y xvid,null -A -N 0x2000 -o /dev/null
--color 0 -R 1,twopass.log
transcode: unrecognized option '-1'
'transcode -h | more' shows a list of available command line options.
mythtv@bandit:~$

BTW, this isn't the same option that gave me trouble on OpenSuse many
months ago so I assume intervening changes to MythTV have changed
things a bit.

Hope this helps, and thanks for bearing with me. If you'd like to to
do testing or provide additional logs and such, just let me know.
I'll do what I can but keep in mind I'm still on the learning curve
with Ubuntu.

-bob

On Sep 13, 2009, at 8:31 PM, MarcRandolph wrote:

> Howdy, and thank you for helping to improve Mythbuntu by opening this
> ticket. You mention "again". I did some quick searching and did
> not
> find where this had been reported (or even more importantly, resolved)
> previously. Could you point to any previous or current discussion or
> tickets on the matter? Also, have you already identified the correct
> parameters and/or a work-around?
>
> Thank you!
>
> ** Changed in: mythbuntu
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> ** Changed in: mythbuntu
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> --
> transcode unencrypted DVD fails
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429089
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Looks like the parameters passed by mtd to invoke transcode are
> incompatible with the current version of transcode (again!) This
> causes the import of unencrypted DVDs to fail. This is with the
> amd64 alpha-5 version of 9.10. The same problem occurs with MythTV
> installed in an amd64 alpha-5 version of Kubuntu. Obviously the
> import of encrypted DVDs will also fail in the same way regardless
> of the whether libdvdcss2 is installed or not.