I have also had the problem of not running hdparm on the DVD drive where it would fail at random points. Once I turned it on, it not only cut the time to rip by 1/3, but I had no more failures.
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:22 +1300, Robin Gilks wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am fairly new to myth and so far it is great. I have my fe/be maching > > working good now (other than a remote), and one other FE working. Now I > > want to be able to rip some DVD's so I don't have to worry about my kids > > scratching them anymore. > > > > I installed on FC4 via Jareds great guide using atrpms rpms, but when I > > try to rip a DVD on the FE/BE machine, I can configure it to do what I > > want, ie choose which sections to rip, even preview, but when I press 0 > > to start ripping, it brings up a screen that says nothing to do, press 0 > > to rip dvd. If I press 0 again, it takes me to the first menu to choose > > what I want to rip. > > > > Any suggestions on this? > > > > Thanks in advance > > Start off my running mtd from an xterm window so you can see the output > from it - go to the Mythdvd and try ripping as usual. After its failed, go > back to the xterm and you'll probaly find that it was something like it > couldn't find the temp directory or something like that. I had exactly > this problem and anything that prevents mtd from completing (apart from > crashing) doesn't give very useful feedback :-(. (if it crashes, it says > that communication with mtd was broken!) > > Hope that helps >
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