Re: [dvd::rip] dvdrip fails ffmpeg/h264 2nd pass, wrong log filename

[Rodney Gordon II <meff@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:55:00AM +0100, J?rn Reder wrote:
> Rodney Gordon II wrote:
> 
> > dvdrip 0.52.6
> > transcode 1.0.2
> > 
> > When encoding to h264 using ffmpeg, ffmpeg seems to drop the h264
> > multipass log to tmp/x264_2pass.log .. not tmp/divx4.log which is
> > where dvdrip looks for it from.
> > I got around this by simply copying tmp/x264_2pass.log to
> > tmp/divx4.log and manually doing pass 2 in a terminal,
> 
> Hmm, did you try to do the 2nd pass manually with "reuse log" enabled? 
> That's the only situation where dvd::rip makes assumptions about the log
> filename. If you do a straight 2-pass transcoding it should work. If 
> not: what exactly went wrong? Any error messages?

Did not try with "reuse log" enabled. This was a standard 2 pass
encode, and on the second pass it errored out, the dump said that it
could not find the 1st pass log file.

> 
> > though I thought that you guys would want to know this
> > for future versions.
> 
> Yep, I'll check h264 myself and will make it an officially supported 
> codec.

Sounds good :)

-r

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