try opening with mpeg streamclip, you can probably fix the file with "repair tc errors"
bram On 18 Mar 2012, at 11:43, "eolin...@gmail.com" <eolin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Try what exactly on other players? The AVIs all played. > >>VLC plays the selected track (last of 30 on a "100%" full disc) > > My answer below i.e. try another player like Mplayer, Mplayer2, XBMC, Miro, > ..................... instead of VLC. Like this you could know it it is a > problem of software, of hardware (i.e about your DVD or your Pionneer). It is > the first thing to do on computer system , to know that. > I'am a geek i.e. I bring me (and for others) and repair computers, more I > cracked one NAS (slug) and one Modem (WRT-54GL) with a Linux. > > >>I started by making a DVD of a Jimmy Fallon segment recorded on my Pioneer > >>DVR. Then I tried dvd::rip with the intent to produce a mpeg file of that > >>segment. Dvdrip transcoding passed the 70% mark, then exited with the > >>subject error message. The complete log is at: > >>http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/dvdriplogfile-lulu01.txt > The tail of the log includes: > Output: INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.7 $Date: 2010/03/13 > 13:05:07 $) > **ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /isos/work/lulu/avi/030/lulu-0 > 30.m2v for reading. > I haven't found any FAQ that addresses this kind of error message. Did I do > something wrong? What now? Can someone recommend a better Linux app to rip a > mpeg from a DVD? > > > I resume what I understood about your problem here. > > You have created a DVD on your player DVD Pionneer and you'd like to import > on your hard drive in the mpeg format using DVD::rip. But you have an error > with it and only 70% of this one is imported instead of 100%. You said too > that this DVD can be play by VLC totally. And you want to get some help about > that. And that's what I'm trying to do. After, I am not a developer of > Transcode, just a simple user who try to help you like I can. And I can do > some translations errors (and sorry for my bad English even I am in > ...............progress.) > > > >>I have no idea what "access to this option" refers to. On -RW, finalization > >>can be undone, but not on -R. The only unfinalized DVR-created DVD I ever > >>tried to use in Linux was DVD+RW, which neither my Funai nor my Pioneer > >>will attempt to finalize, and which didn't allow me to do anything I hoped > >>to do with it. All those I've used since attempting to use dvd::rip were > >>finalized. > >>I really have no idea what you're attempting to communicate here. > > You have this option in a menu which is only available when a DVD is inserted > in the player. Normally, she is only available for DVD-/+R but I know that > some marks have done that too for some cheap players. Perhaps, it is your > case. By experience, it was impossible to rip/play correctly a DVD no > finalized. > > > >>I tried using a Magnavox (H2160MW9A; made by Funai) DVR instead of a > >>Pioneer (460), and used a DVD-R instead, and different music video > >>recordings as source. I get the same error message and failure attempting > >>to use a mpeg container instead of avi. On first two AVI attempts, a > >>playable AVI was produced, but the result is only a worthless fraction of > >>the source, possibly the top half or so, at about 1/4 resolution of the > >>original. After the two I quit trying with the Funai DVD-R. > > It is strange that AVI failled too. > > >>Tcprobe applied to what? Source DVD? Source VOB? Output of the failed mpeg > >>attempts? > > Tcprobe is a tool of Transcode which give you informations on > files/DVD/repertories/ like codecs/formats/bitrates/size.... It is about the > Source DVD and why not the failed mpeg attempts. More you 'll give > informations on a forum/mailing list on your problem, more you could > have/find answers to resolve your problem. > > I was thinking at your first post about to your ask to recomand you some > better applications on Linux. DVD::rip is certainly the most powerful but she > is complex (like Transcode) but that's not the only one. > You could try Shrinkta, OGmrip, Backlite (done by the same author, it is > K9copy without the Kdelibs), Dvdbackup and even DvdShrink (using Wine or a > GUI of this one like Qwine or Vineyard. Be careful the preview doesn't work > well. All this applications rip and can create mpeg files. > If you have always some problems with this applications, the problems come > from your recording. > Hopes this helps you. > > > 2012/3/18 Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> > On 2012/03/17 20:41 (GMT+0100) eolin...@gmail.com composed: > > > 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, > > Try what exactly on other players? The AVIs all played. As you quoted below, > I also used SMplayer to test the AVIs. No MP* files were produced. > > > Another idea is about the finalization of the DVD. Have you access to this > option ? > > I have no idea what "access to this option" refers to. On -RW, finalization > can be undone, but not on -R. The only unfinalized DVR-created DVD I ever > tried to use in Linux was DVD+RW, which neither my Funai nor my Pioneer will > attempt to finalize, and which didn't allow me to do anything I hoped to do > with it. All those I've used since attempting to use dvd::rip were finalized. > > > 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). > > I really have no idea what you're attempting to communicate here. > > > 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. > > I tried using a Magnavox (H2160MW9A; made by Funai) DVR instead of a Pioneer > (460), and used a DVD-R instead, and different music video recordings as > source. I get the same error message and failure attempting to use a mpeg > container instead of avi. On first two AVI attempts, a playable AVI was > produced, but the result is only a worthless fraction of the source, possibly > the top half or so, at about 1/4 resolution of the original. After the two I > quit trying with the Funai DVD-R. > > > Perhaps a bit of the command tcprobe could tell us more explanations on it. > > Tcprobe applied to what? Source DVD? Source VOB? Output of the failed mpeg > attempts? > > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. 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