Re: dvdrip-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1

Jamin Collins wrote: 

> [email protected] wrote:
> > I have been having problems lately with ripping dvd's. I've ripped
> > dvd's before without a hitch, but recently (I probably updated
> > something), dvdrip has been freezing up trying to grab a preview.
> > This is the case for both old and new dvds and for dvdrip 0.98.7 and
> > 0.98.8. Just grabbing a preview gives me this error message:
> > 
> > Job 'Grab preview - title #1' failed with error message: transcode
> > can't find this frame. Try a lower frame number. Try forcing slow
> > frame grabbing.
> > 
> > I believe that the problem is in dvdrip and not transcode, because it
> > worked fine before. Any help  is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Are you sure that the specified frame number in your preview grab exists 
> in the ripped selection?
> 
> -- 
> Jamin W. Collins

I discovered the issue after searching more on the web. I just had to reinstall libmpeg2. However, now trans coding is failing. I received an error message from avimerge while trying to transcode to xvid4 in an avi container. Two avi files resulted. One only had sound and the other didn't play at all. Other codecs failed also.