VIDEO_TS to xvid/divX problem

[DesertRat]

I finally got the SVI to DVD system working nicely but I have run into trouble when I try to rip a DVD to xvid or divx. The program chuggs along for about a minute and a half then goes "BING" and says that the job is finished. All I have is an empty AVI file. Here's the info read out:

Encoding started on Wed Mar 22 05:53:52 PST 2006
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 4 titles on this DVD.
There are 29 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
success: format: 0 data: 0x29800 - 0x27000
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 9000.0 kbps (1125.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x480 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
AC3: 2.0 (stereo) 48000 Hz 192.0 kbit/s
No accelerated resampler found
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
================================================== ========================
xvid: using library version 1.2.-127 (build xvid-1.2.0-dev)
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=640 h=352]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
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.
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 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: FAST_BILINEAR scaler, from Planar YV12 to Planar YV12 using AltiVec
videocodec: XviD (640x352 fourcc=44495658 [DIVX])
xvid: par=0/0 (vga11), displayed=640x359, sampled=640x352
xvid: CBR Rate Control -- bitrate=1213kbit/s

[mwest]

Is this a VIDEO_TS folder that has macrovision stripped, or is it straight from the DVD?

Matthew

[DesertRat]

I brought it onto my HD using Mac The Ripper so I figure the Macrovision is gone. Yes? No?

[Case]

There are 4 titles on this DVD.

Does it fail for every title (as selectable in the video tab)?
You could try extracting just the one title you need in MTR, and feeding that to ffmpegX.

[DesertRat]

I'll try that. What about subtitles? Would bringing just one title in boter that or should I bring in the subs separate?

[DesertRat]

Tried what you said with the same result. Chugged for about a minute then it said FINISHED. I tried some other settings and was told that FFMPEGX doesn't allow VIDEO_TS input.