>>VLC plays the selected track (last of 30 on a "100%" full disc) all the way through without exception, a -RW disc, which proves to me I didn't forget to finalize it.
Have you try on some others players ? Mplayer, Mplayer2, XBMC, Miro, Gmplayer, Totem..... I said that because on the mailing list of dvdauthor for them, the best player (which give none errors on a authoring file is an .....................old player (not developed currently) called Ogle. Another idea is about the finalization of the DVD. Have you access to this option ? If yes do it. To my mind it is necessary. By experience, if the answer is no, it is not obligatory but not for the opposite. If VLC like DVD::rip and Transcode are not able to work at 100 % but at 70 %, the problem seems to be more on this side (or another but not for this sofware). Could you do another test with your player on a "normal" DVD if you have not afraid to loose a DVD. It is not expensive nowadays. >>Except for devel versions of Mozilla products, I only use pre-compiled software available via openSUSE repositories, including Pacman. Life is too complicated here for getting into building software. Pacman is doing a great job for the Opensuse community even I am on Ubuntu distributions. I have use Opensuse in the past (10.1, 10.2 10.3). >>StreamCap is not among those available in openSUSE repos. Other multimedia apps already installed include dvdauthor, dvdsnoop, dvdwizard, dvbcut & tovid. I haven't tried any of those since a very long time ago. All my previous attempts to rip video from DVD failed. Streamcap is a python program so you can use it simply without compilation. Download it, create a folder called Streamcap, untar in it. You'll obtain two files, one icon and a python program. Open a console in this folder. Type python StreamCap.py It will run the program and the Gui. After, you 'll understand quickly how he is working. You could find more explanations how to create a shortcut on*comments of * this article<http://linuxevolution.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/opensource-magazine-openshot-n%C2%B0-31-pas-cette-fois-ci/>that I wrote the last year for a French magazine. Sorry it is in French for you. A quick tip when you are typing in a terminal/console about exact names of a file. Just type python and the first letters of the program and push on the tab keyboard on your keyboard. it will complete all the rest (+ the extension .py) >>I tried again with another music video, track 2 on the same DVD-RW, also 3.9 minutes. Dvd::rip predicted a slightly smaller 95MB mpeg file size than the track 1 109MB AVI. Dvd::rip again aborted as described in my OP. I repeated after switching container to AVI, which produced a 136MB AVI result playable in SMplayer. So the problem seems confined to the MPEG container type. Perhaps but it is difficult to understand why because it is an usual format (not an exotic) well managed by DVD::rip/transcode and VLC too. Perhaps a bit of the command tcprobe could tell us more explanations on it. Best regards. 2012/3/17 Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> > On 2012/03/17 12:24 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > > > Personnaly, I find this >>> situation a bit curious and strange. :-( >>> >> > I tried a different shorter (3.9 minute vs. 21.1 minute) music video track >> from the same DVD-RW, but to AVI rather than MPEG. SMplayer was able to >> play >> the resulting AVI file all the way through without apparent exception. >> > > I tried again with another music video, track 2 on the same DVD-RW, also > 3.9 minutes. Dvd::rip predicted a slightly smaller 95MB mpeg file size than > the track 1 109MB AVI. Dvd::rip again aborted as described in my OP. I > repeated after switching container to AVI, which produced a 136MB AVI > result playable in SMplayer. So the problem seems confined to the MPEG > container type. > > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ > > -- Olivier Cenwen un elfe sur la banquise/ an elve on the ice Mon blog perso sur le multimédia, Ubuntu, Linux et OpenShot : http://linuxevolution.wordpress.com/ Le forum d'Openshot où vous me trouverez : http://openshotusers.com/ http://openshotusers.com/forum/index.php Nothing is lost until the last second. The family motto : When we want, we can. Astuces, Actualités, Logiciels, bref sur tout ce que je ne fais d'articles dessus Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/111472725110173916234/posts>
