I am trying to rip some of my DVDs using mythDVD, but I am having some problems. I am using an external USB drive for storage of my movies, so I have all of my directories in the mythtv configurations pointed to the USB drive.

But I can't seem to find the setting for changing the directory where myth stores the temporary VOB files before transcoding. I tried to set the directory under Setup->Media Settings->DVD Settings->Rip Settings->Directory to hold temporary files , but no matter what I put in there it doesn't seem to matter.

Every time I try to rip a DVD, it runs for about 3 minutes and then pukes out. It gives me this error text in the mtd.log file:

"01:57:58: launching job: job dvd 1 1 3 0 -1 /home/media/movies/LUTHER
01:57:59: transcode command will be: transcode -i /storage/videos/LUTHER/vob/ -g 720x480 -f 0,1 -M 2 -V -j 0,8,0,8 -y xvid -w 1618 -o /home/media/movies/LUTHER.avi --print_status 20 --color 0
01:57:59: job thread beginning to rip dvd title
02:01:08: Error: Couldn't write blocks during a rip. Filesystem size exceeded? Disc full?"

For some unknown reason, the transcode command keeps wanting to put its files in /storage/videos. I cannot do this, because the partition that I am using for myth doesn't have enough space for that. So I need to find a way to "remap" this directory, but it almost seems to be hard coded.

Thanks!

You haven't really given enough information for this. Your setup is obviously non-standard since /storage isn't part of knoppmyth, so can you give us
1. your /etc/fstab, and
2. the output of "df -h"?

If there's nothing in /storage/videos it's quite easy to remove the directory then re-create it as a symlink pointing anywhere you like.

Mike

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i had a similar problem. The error message in syslog led me to believe that something was wrong with pineapple:


However
tail /myth/tmp/mtd.log
showed the problem

df -h
also showed that my /myth/video directory was full.
It is a mounted drive from teh media-server and was full

Freeing up space made the error go away.