dvdrip fails to create avi with ac3 sound

[Juan-Carlos Amengual]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

$ dpkg -l *dvdrip* | grep ^ii
ii dvdrip 1:0.98.11-0ubuntu3 perl front end for transcode and ffmpeg
ii dvdrip-doc 2:0.98.11-0ubuntu1 Documentation for dvd::rip
ii dvdrip-utils 1:0.98.11-0ubuntu3 perl front end for transcode and ffmpeg (tools)

DVD: The Social Network, Predators. If I try to encode an AVI file with MP3 sound works OK, but if I try to encode an AVI with the original AC3 sound, dvdrip gets stuck at the second pass (for 3 or 4 minutes) and then finish creating only an AVI with the header. Extracted from log:

Ejecutando comando: mkdir -m 0775 -p '/home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/tmp' && cd /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/tmp && mkdir -p /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/avi/001 && execflow -n 19 transcode -H 10 -a 2 -x vob,null -i \/home\/jcamen\/dvdrip\-data\/La_Red_Social\/vob\/001\/ -w 1100,50 -A -N 0x2000 -f 25.000 -Y 44,0,44,0 -B 27,10,8 -R 1 -y xvid,null -o /dev/null --progress_meter 2 --progress_rate 25 && echo EXECFLOW_OK
Mon Jun 27 13:20:33 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 10% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 13:22:43 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 20% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 13:24:54 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 30% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 13:27:11 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 40% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 13:29:12 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 50% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 13:31:05 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 60% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 13:33:06 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 70% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 13:35:12 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 80% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 13:37:10 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 90% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 13:38:38 2011 Iniciando trabajo 'Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 2'
Mon Jun 27 13:38:38 2011 Ejecutando comando: mkdir -m 0775 -p '/home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/tmp' && cd /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/tmp && mkdir -p /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/avi/001 && execflow -n 19 transcode -H 10 -a 2 -x vob -i \/home\/jcamen\/dvdrip\-data\/La_Red_Social\/vob\/001\/ -w 1100,50 -A -N 0x2000 -f 25.000 -Y 44,0,44,0 -B 27,10,8 -R 2 -y xvid -o /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/avi/001/La_Red_Social-001.avi --progress_meter 2 --progress_rate 25 && echo EXECFLOW_OK
Mon Jun 27 13:38:38 2011 Trabajo 'Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1' terminado
Mon Jun 27 13:43:03 2011 Trabajo 'Codificar con varias pasada - título #1' terminado
Mon Jun 27 13:43:03 2011 Trabajo 'Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 2' terminado

I have tried to exec the full transcode command from console and programs stops after 3 or 4 minutes doing nothing. So maybe the problem is with transcode, but I'm not totally sure because it could be an incorrect use of transcode by dvdrip. So I am filling this report hoping you'll be able to determine where the bug really is. Please, let me know if you need more info. Thanks a lot in advance!!!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: dvdrip 1:0.98.11-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 27 16:19:44 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dvdrip
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Juan-Carlos Amengual (jcamen)]

Maybe this bug could be related to #588223. In fact, I began to perform some probes when I tried to encode an AVI file with both Spanish an English language in AC3. I got the same error described in #588223. So I began wondering why AVI file was empty. Then, I create a simple AVI file with MP3 Spanish language (160 kbps.) from The Social Network and worked OK. Then, I tried to create an AVI file with AC3 sound from the Predators vob files I have not deleted yet (I successfully encoded a Predators AVI file with MP3 sound two days ago). So I ran dvdrip, chose the Predators rip file and changed sound options from MP3 to AC3. The creation of this AVI failed producing an empty AVI file (only the header). In order to confirm the bug, I tried to create the AVI file fom the Social Network using AC3 with Spanish language and failed the same way. So IMHO the bus is related to create AVI files with AC3 sound, not for choosing to integrate two different languages in the same AVI. I'm just trying to create an AVI file form Social Network using both languages (Spanish and English) but with MP3 encoding in order to confirm the bug. I'll be back with the details :-)

[Juan-Carlos Amengual (jcamen)]

Just to let you know that I have been able to create an AVI file from The Social Network DVD with both, Spanish and English languages, encoded in MP3 (including a vobsub file for Spanish language subtitles). The only problem is that I have configured a video rate of 1100 kbps. and the AVI file has a video rate of 615.2 kbps. as reported by mplayer (the file is 785 MB instead of 1180 MB as it should be with 1100 kbps.). Maybe a new bug? Please, let me know if this divergence between the video rate fixed and that really used in the encoding deserves a separate bug report. Thanks a lot! Here it is the log file:

Mon Jun 27 16:56:57 2011 Iniciando trabajo 'Codificar - título #1'
Mon Jun 27 16:56:57 2011 Iniciando trabajo 'Codificar con varias pasada - título #1'
Mon Jun 27 16:56:57 2011 Iniciando trabajo 'Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1'
Mon Jun 27 16:56:57 2011 Ejecutando comando: mkdir -m 0775 -p '/home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/tmp' && cd /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/tmp && mkdir -p /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/avi/001 && execflow -n 19 transcode -H 10 -a 2 -x vob,null -i \/home\/jcamen\/dvdrip\-data\/La_Red_Social\/vob\/001\/ -w 1100,50 -b 160,0,2 -s 1.466 --a52_drc_off -f 25.000 -Y 44,0,44,0 -B 27,10,8 -R 1 -y xvid,null -o /dev/null --progress_meter 2 --progress_rate 25 && echo EXECFLOW_OK
Mon Jun 27 16:58:54 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 10% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:00:37 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 20% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:02:22 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 30% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:04:26 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 40% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:06:15 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 50% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:07:52 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 60% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:09:46 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 70% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:11:30 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 80% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:13:10 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1: 90% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:14:24 2011 Iniciando trabajo 'Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 2'
Mon Jun 27 17:14:24 2011 Ejecutando comando: mkdir -m 0775 -p '/home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/tmp' && cd /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/tmp && mkdir -p /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/avi/001 && execflow -n 19 transcode -H 10 -a 2 -x vob -i \/home\/jcamen\/dvdrip\-data\/La_Red_Social\/vob\/001\/ -w 1100,50 -b 160,0,2 -s 1.466 --a52_drc_off -f 25.000 -Y 44,0,44,0 -B 27,10,8 -R 2 -y xvid -o /home/jcamen/dvdrip-data/La_Red_Social/avi/001/La_Red_Social-001.avi --progress_meter 2 --progress_rate 25 && echo EXECFLOW_OK
Mon Jun 27 17:14:24 2011 Trabajo 'Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 1' terminado
Mon Jun 27 17:17:59 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 2: 10% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:21:19 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 2: 20% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:24:40 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 2: 30% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:28:05 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 2: 40% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:31:26 2011 Codificar el video - título #1, pasada 2: 50% hecho.
Mon Jun 27 17:34:50 2011 Codificar el video - ...

[Juan-Carlos Amengual (jcamen)]

Hey, nobody listening? :-)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.