G3 problem? XviD mencoder rips in under 10 seconds...

[jalfrezi]

hi,

i'm trying to back up a DVD to XviD using ffmpegx (mencoder). when i try to encode after setting preferences, the process finishes in under 10 seconds!? obviously the file i'm left with is crapola. any ideas where i'm going wrong?

the install of ffmpegx went fine. i ripped the DVD to my HD using Mac the Ripper and save encoded file to my Movies folder. have browsed through the log file afterwards which means very little to me. should i look about to install some components that might be missing? i thought that everything required for the business is already included w/ ffmpegx.

[i've tried to rip to MP4 which appeared to work (ie it took hours processing) but the file i was left with was rubbish.]

version of ffmpeg - 0.0.9x (0.0.9x r2)
my machine is a pismo 500 w/ 768 MB RAM OSX10.4.0

i include a copy of the log file which resulted after the 10 second rip. don't know if it's important or not but the part "1 duplicate frame(s)!" is displayed in red...

any suggestions very welcome!

Encoding started on Mon Mar 12 12:12:01 CET 2007
MEncoder dev-CVS-051126-18:35-3.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
AltiVec not found
CPU: PowerPC
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 7 titles on this DVD.
There are 8 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xe21c7800
MPEG-PS file format detected.
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 7000.0 kbps (875.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
AC3: 2.0 (stereo) 48000 Hz 320.0 kbit/s
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 320.0 kbit/20.83% (ratio: 40000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
No accelerated resampler found
===========
xvid: using library version 1.2.-127 (build xvid-1.2.0-dev)
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Also try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=720 h=576]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
================================================== ========================
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16be -> 48000Hz/0ch/s8...
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16be -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16be...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
xvid: bitrate setting is ignored during first pass
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> Planar YV12 special converter
videocodec: XviD (720x576 fourcc=44495658 [DIVX])
xvid: par=0/0 (vga11), displayed=768x576, sampled=720x576
xvid: 2Pass Rate Control -- 1st pass
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing AVI header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.

[jalfrezi]

after some digging around it seems this problem might be down to the processor i have - G3. i've tried installing the G3 specific binaries but the result is still the same - encoding takes no time and the resulting .avi doesn't play.

if any G3 users out there have a solution i'd be glad to hear it!

"The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec." sounds ominous...

[tomlee59]

I don't know how to solve this problem in ffmpegx, but an alternative is to use D-Vision3. It's a free tool, and it's never given me a lick of trouble. After ripping, double-check that the VIDEO_TS folder plays properly, and then let D-Vision have at it.

It should run fine on a G3.

[jalfrezi]

thanks for the reply tom.

i've begun ripping with dvision - it seems to be working but very slowly. looks like it will take 36 hours to make a complete rip maybe my machine is too old for this sort of stuff.