[dvd::rip] Probably a transcode issue, but...

I'm ripping all of my DVDs to .avi, and most have gone very well, thanks to DVD::Rip. I've had this particular a few times now, so I'd like to find out what's going on. The first pass seems to go fine, but the second pass finishes after a short period of time (10 minutes or so), and it produces an unplayable .avi file that is exactly 2056 bytes each time (with each dvd that experiences this problem). I executed the second pass manually, and I can't seem to find any issues, other than the lack of a file being produced, of course. Here is the output (I generally use ffmpeg, but this case shows testing with xvid4 as output, with the same issue)...

ïhulld@penguinista:/data2/dvdrip/sb/avi/001> cd /data2/dvdrip/sb/tmp && nice -n 18 transcode -H 10 -a 0 -x vob -i /data2/dvdrip/sb/vob/001 -w 1030,50 -b 128,0,2 --a52_drc_off -f 25 -Y 4,0,4,0 -B 27,10,8 -R 2 -y xvid4 -o /data2/dvdrip/sb/avi/001/sb-001.avi --print_status 20
transcode v1.0.2 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg
[transcode] (probe) suggested AV correction -D 0 (0 ms) | AV 0 ms | 0 ms
[transcode] auto-probing source /data2/dvdrip/sb/vob/001 (ok)
[transcode] V: import format    | MPEG-2 (V=vob|A=vob)
[transcode] V: AV demux/sync    | (1) sync AV at initial MPEG sequence
[transcode] V: import frame     | 720x576 1.25:1 encoded @ 16:9
[transcode] V: new aspect ratio | 640x360 1.78:1 (-B)
[transcode] V: clip frame (->) | 640x352
[transcode] V: bits/pixel       | 0.183
[transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 25.000,0
[transcode] V: multi-pass       | (mode=2) reading data (pass2) from divx4.log
[transcode] V: Y'CbCr           | YV12/I420
[transcode] A: import format    | 0x2001 AC3/A52      [48000,16,2]
[transcode] A: export format    | 0x55    MPEG layer-3 [48000,16,2] 128 kbps
[transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 25.000,3
[transcode] A: bytes per frame | 7680 (7680.000000)
[transcode] A: adjustment       | 0@1000
[transcode] V: IA32/AMD64 accel | sse2 (sse2 sse mmxext mmx asm C)
tc_memcpy: using sse for memcpy
[transcode] V: video buffer     | 10 @ 720x576
[import_vob.so] v0.6.0 (2003-10-02) (video) MPEG-2 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM | (subtitle)
[export_xvid4.so] v0.0.5 (2003-12-05) (video) XviD 1.0.x series (aka API 4.0) | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM
[import_vob.so] tccat -i "/data2/dvdrip/sb/vob/001" -t vob -d 0 -S 0 | tcdemux -a 0 -x ac3 -S 0 -M 1 -d 0 | tcextract -t vob -a 0 -x ac3 -d 0 | tcdecode -x a52 -d 0 -A 1
[import_vob.so] tccat -i "/data2/dvdrip/sb/vob/001" -t vob -d 0 -S 0 | tcdemux -s 0x80 -x mpeg2 -S 0 -M 1 -d 0 | tcextract -t vob -a 0 -x mpeg2 -d 0 | tcdecode -x mpeg2 -d 0 -y yv12
[export_xvid4.so] Neither './xvid4.cfg' nor '~/.transcode/xvid4.cfg'
[export_xvid4.so] found. Default settings will be used instead.
tc_memcpy: using sse for memcpy
tc_memcpy: using sse for memcpy
[decode_mpeg2.c] libmpeg2 0.4.0b loop decoder
[decode_mpeg2.c] libmpeg2 acceleration: mmxext
Audio: using new version
Audio: using lame-3.96.1

Again, at the end of this process, I end up with an .avi file 2056 bytes in length.

I'm running Fedora Core 4 with transcode 1.0.2 and DVD::Rip 0.97.6, but I've had this same issue on another machine running SuSE 10.0 with transcode 1.0.2 and DVD::Rip 0.97.6. On the SuSE machine, I went with the latest cvs snapshot of transcode a few weeks ago, but had an issue with this same DVD where there was no audio. Not sure if the transcode command needs to change with the cvs version (other than the --print_status changing to --progress_rate). Output shows below, notice that audio import and export is disabled, though I don't know why. If I play the vob files that dvd::rip put in the vob directory, they play fine, audio and all.

hulld@penguinista:/data2/dvdrip/sb/tmp> cd /data2/dvdrip/sb/tmp && nice -n 18 transcode -H 10 -a 0 -x vob -i /data2/dvdrip/sb/vob/001 -w 1030,50 -b 128,0,2 --a52_drc_off -f 25 -Y 4,0,4,0 -B 27,10,8 -R 2 -y xvid4 -o /data2/dvdrip/sb/avi/001/sb-001.avi --progress_rate 20
transcode v1.1.0-cvs (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg
[transcode] auto-probing source /data2/dvdrip/sb/vob/001 (ok)
[transcode] V: import format    | MPEG-2 (V=vob|A=vob)
[transcode] V: AV demux/sync    | (1) sync AV at initial MPEG sequence
[transcode] V: import frame     | 720x576 1.25:1 encoded @ 16:9
[transcode] V: new aspect ratio | 640x360 1.78:1 (-B)
[transcode] V: clip frame (->) | 640x352
[transcode] V: bits/pixel       | 0.183
[transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 25.000,0
[transcode] V: multi-pass       | (mode=2) reading data (pass2) from divx4.log
[transcode] V: YCbCr            | I420
[transcode] A: import           | disabled
[transcode] A: export           | disabled
[transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 25.000,3
[transcode] A: bytes per frame | 7680 (7680.000000)
[transcode] A: adjustment       | 0@1000
[transcode] V: IA32/AMD64 accel | sse2 sse mmx cmove asm
[transcode] V: video buffer     | 10 @ 720x576
[import_null.so] v0.2.0 (2002-01-19) (video) null | (audio) null
[import_vob.so] v0.6.0 (2003-10-02) (video) MPEG-2 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM | (subtitle)
[export_null.so] v0.1.2 (2001-08-17) (video) null | (audio) null
[export_xvid4.so] v0.0.5 (2003-12-05) (video) XviD 1.0.x series (aka API 4.0) | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM
[import_vob.so] tccat -i "/data2/dvdrip/sb/vob/001" -t vob -d 0 -S 0 | tcdemux -s 0x80 -x mpeg2 -S 0 -M 1 -d 0 | tcextract -t vob -a 0 -x mpeg2 -d 0 | tcdecode -x mpeg2 -d 0 -y yuv420p
[export_xvid4.so] Neither './xvid4.cfg' nor '~/.transcode/xvid4.cfg'
[export_xvid4.so] found. Default settings will be used instead.
[decode_mpeg2.c] libmpeg2 0.4.0b loop decoder
[decode_mpeg2.c] libmpeg2 acceleration: mmxext
[encoder.c] Delaying audio (0)
encoding frames [0-540], 13.61 fps, CFT: 0:00:21, ( 0| 0| 9)

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,

David Hull