MediaSlayer - CD and DVD HD ripping tool (2 Viewers)

[kalif]

Really Good Idea

Hi Manfred.

First of all, I have to say that your plugin is really really a good idea and what I searched for a while.

I think that it's also your plugin that confirm me that I want to have a media portal installation at my home

So for this

But I have several problem to use the function mencode , the rest is working.

I don't know what I have to install to just encode a dvd with the plugin. Maybe some codecs install needed ? Really I don't know.

Is there a "check list" where I can found a list of things that must be installed to use mencoder ?

After hours of searching in the forum, I've tried to find the source code to check what's going on. I never found that so I analyze the the result with some dissambler tools.
And I found that if I put the mencoder.exe in a folder that has "mencoder" for the name it will bug ('cos string.replace("mencoder","mplayer") doesn't just change the filename of the fullfilename strings, but also the folder name.

Other problem is about MainGui OnButtonRip ; I think that there is a check if/else missing when using "mencode" type (always return 'error in config').

I hope it will help on the development( maybe a new release planned? ) and if I can help you on this plugin with the source code available I can try to see what's going on and I can try to free some time.

 

[-Manfred-]

Oops. Change the folder name of mencoder to Mplayer for example and it will work. I have to fix that part in next release.

If you want to rip DVDs to avi you'll need mplayer package where is mplayer and mencoder both in the same folder - that's all.

 

[kalif]

Hello Manfred.

Yes that's what I've done when I saw the code

But this just doesn't solve the whole things ; i doesn't encode the file.
Using debuging steps, I find the arguments used by the plugin (processinfo start) to see what's the params used for mencoder.

And if I try to start it myself on a dos prompt I have the same problem, no output vieawble and I don't know why.

Help please

 

[-Manfred-]

But this is using 2 pass encoding and first pass is encoded to null. Only needed thing from 1st pass is the log file which is used for second pass. So you would not see any files. Is this a normal DVD?

 

[kalif]

Yes it's a normal dvd without encryption

About the pass, I "google" just a bit a try some args to test it (1 pass)

=> C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\mencoder>mencoder.exe dvd://2 -dvd-device z:\\
-o f:\title.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:mbd=1:vbitrate=1800
this one give me a huge file, but viewable

=>
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\mencoder>mencoder.exe dvd://2 -dvd-device z:\\
-o f:\title.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=1:vbitrate=1800
this one give a file not viewable.

I will try a new time with your plugin using a different folderName, and also remove some check on the plugin and see if it give me something.

Do you have any tips for me to find what's wrong ?

I will try to test this night

Olivier

 

[-Manfred-]

That is then a codec issue. Try SAF codecs from this forum - those are really good ones and everything plays fine with them.

 

[mrhateful]

Bug: No virtual keyboard

First of all i love the addon, and i just created this account to inform you of this bug

I am using the monochrome skin because it is the only skin supported by your addon

anyway when i use your addon like this
pop in dvd->open media slayer->click rip it->type in name->ripping

then everythings is fine however when it goes like this:
open media slayer->pop in dvd->pop up with "do you want to rip it"->yes->Nothing (no virtual keyboard) and it just hangs with the message Analyzing disc. (i do not use illigal chars

And when this problem occurs the only solution for me is to crash the program and restart it

ohh and btw this problem also occurs with both v1.1c and v1.1d both with monochrome and bluewide.

also two things i would like to have.

first of all an option to have it pop up with where i want to place it, so i dont place my videoes on the wrong hard disc

second i would like to have an option to remove the internal and dvdfab suggestions in the mediacenter, because i dont have them installed. Ohh and can you make it able so that i can call the dvd rippers what we want, so Mencoder i can rename "Make as avi" and dvdimg to "Make as iso".

Anyway thanks for a great addon

 

[joz]

I'm also experiencing problems setting up mencoder.
I got IMGBurn working fine but I'd like the ability to rip to an MPEG4 format.

I used the monochrome skinfile which is provided with the plugin. However I used this skinfile in aMPed. Ofcourse that does not look right (will improve it as soon as it works) but the functionality seems to be ok. In my point of view this cannot be a skin issue, could be wrong of course.

Whenever I try ripping a DVD with mencoder it says in a second it's done ripping it. My HTPC is quite fast but not that fast
I have some errors in log that might have to do with this. The logs attached was just browsing to mediaslaye and trying to rip. I double checked the browsing part of my testing wasn't causing the errors and they aren't.

p.s.

I setup my export directory to "d:\Mijn Documenten\Mijn Video's\Ripped Video" at first. Then Mediaslayer told me it could not find the path (probably because of the ' in there). So I changed it to just the root of my D partition and then the above stuff happened.

 

[-Manfred-]

kalif: this test version has a fix for mencoder folder issue.

mrhateful: can you try this how it works?

joz: ' can be used in folder names. Any online decrypters active? I noticed if DVD is css or regional protected mencoder doesn't work quite well so you have to have some kind of online decrypter. Are mencoder.exe and mplayer.exe in same folder?

 

[joz]

Are mencoder.exe and mplayer.exe in same folder

yes they are inside program files -> mediaportal in a folder called mplayer.

Any online decrypters active?

Yep, got AnyDVD running because otherwise I couldn't get imgburn to work.