Comment 3 for bug 429089

Same problem here with Mythbuntu, Karmic, Alpha 6, AMD-64 build. Dpkg -s reports the transcode version as:

Version: 3:1.1.4-0.0ubuntu3

I find no other binaries of transcode on my system.

My mdt.log reads:
11:49:37: a client socket has been opened
11:49:59: launching job: job dvd 1 1 7 0 -1 /var/lib/mythdvd/162-Rollings
11:49:59: transcode command will be: 'transcode -i /var/lib/mythdvd/temp/162-Rollings/vob/ -g 720x480 -M 2 -1 -j 0,8,0,8 -B 0,2 -y xvid -w 1618 -o /var/lib/mythdvd/162-Rollings.avi --color 0'
11:49:59: job thread beginning to rip dvd title
11:58:36: job thread finished ripping dvd title
11:58:36: Error: Exiting runTranscode(1) transcode exit code: 1
11:58:38: job failed: job dvd 1 1 7 0 -1 /var/lib/mythdvd/162-Rollings

If I try manually typing (well, with cut and paste!) this transcode command I get –

transcode: unrecognized option '-1'
'transcode -h | more' shows a list of available command line options.

and if I, just for fun, remove the "-1" option I get

transcode: unrecognized option '--color'

and if I remove both "-1" and "--color" then the transcode runs successfully.

The man page for transcode doesn't show either a --color or a -1 parameter either.

It's almost as if this is not the right version of transcode, but according to Synaptic it's the latest.

BTW, this only happens if you select a "good" or "excellent" DVD copy - if you select "perfect" then it doesn't run transcode and you don't have this problem. This is of course being tried only with unencrypted "home movie" dvds.