[Touch HD Themes and Apps] thegof:
I think I'm missing something so perhaps someone can point me in the correct direction. I'm trying to convert some things for my Touch Pro2 as it's nice to keep some DVD's available for those periods of downtime, or a couple kids videos for the occasional "stuck in traffic" episodes. :eek:

(attempted under Vista and Win7 using version 2.9c) So I tried a DVD for a test (Armagedon, retail disk) with the setting profile of HD. Alas, it seems that the software won't work on encrypted disks (MEncoder crashes). Ok, so I use DVD Decrypter to pull a non-protected image, load it with magiciso as a virtual drive, and try again. I seem to get some errors, but at least it loads it and shows a proper duration (2h30m). Output from the initial "load" of the DVD below. Note the "Please send bug report" items at the end. Also, the "movie" is VTS_04* which I *think* is properly corresponding to the video file name being put into the queue of dvd://4

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OBTAINING INFORMATION OF VIDEOFILE: dvd://
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MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r29355-4.5.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
getch2: 6 can't get number of input events [disabling console input]

Playing dvd://.
ID_DVD_TITLES=6
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=28
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_CHAPTERS=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_LENGTH=191.200
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_LENGTH=151.000
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_LENGTH=297.133
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=9037.734
There are 6 titles on this DVD.
ID_DVD_CURRENT_TITLE=1
There are 2 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
ID_AID_128_LANG=en
audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (5.1) language: fr aid: 129.
ID_AUDIO_ID=129
ID_AID_129_LANG=fr
number of audio channels on disk: 2.
subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=en
number of subtitles on disk: 1
CHAPTERS: 00:00:00,00:06:18,00:11:53,00:23:11,00:28:43,00:35:26,00:39:53,00:45:50,00:48:35,00:51:12,00:56:21,00:59:05,01:07:09,01:11:10,01:20:55,01:24:03,01:32:35,01:41:07,01:51:47,01:55:47,01:59:18,02:00:27,02:05:12,02:08:04,02:12:40,02:14:50,02:23:44,02:30:37,
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=dvd://
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=9800000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.970
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=9037.73
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=28
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
VDec: using Mpeg PES as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.3333
VO: [null] 720x480 => 720x540 Mpeg PES
Selected video codec: [mpegpes] vfm: mpegpes (MPEG-PES output (.mpg or DXR3/IVTV/DVB/V4L2 card))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=mpegpes
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=384000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52
Starting playback...

Exiting... (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
Please send bug report - no VTS_TMAPT ??
Please send bug report - no VTS_TMAPT ??
Please send bug report - no VTS_TMAPT ??
libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 5 (VTS_05_0.IFO).
libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 6 (VTS_06_0.IFO).
libdvdread: DVDDiscId read returned -1 bytes, wanted 12288
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler

At this point I try to give it a shot by just selecting "Proceed". It converts, but it's just one of the (short) music videos. There doesn't seem to be any way to pick "which" portion of the DVD to select. I tried looking at "edit" which shows the video as being the full length, but the player obviously shows the initial video being selected is the music video, then if I select Next in the player, I can get to the movie. But, I can't find a way to indicate how to do this selection for the encode :(

I tried the same thing for another DVD, same problem (encoded a promo section of the DVD, although the video filename was dvd://10 and it looks like the main movie is VTS_07). So how are people converting the main video of a DVD. From the posts here, it seems like people are just doing a "stick the DVD in and convert" which I'd love. :D