I have been trying to get xDVDSHRINK, DVDRIP, Acidrip to work, all to no avail for one reason or another. This in mind, I am taking them one at a time and try to get them to work. I think I am the closest to getting xDVDSHRINK working, but in the final steps of creating the shrunken movie, it fails. Here is what I get during the DVD-Ripping session on the text window that opens up:

Checking for A/V desynchronization Done! [00:00:25]
Reading the chapter list Done! [00:00:25]
Ripping Title Done! [00:13:29]
Resizing MPEG2 video stream Done! [00:24:02]
Remultiplexing Working!/usr/bin/dvdsfunctions: lin
e 1464: 15391 Illegal instruction nice -+19 mplex -f 8 -o /home/eric/rips/DV
D_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.mpg /home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.m2v /home/eric/rips/DV
D_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.ac3 2>/home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/mplexdebug.txt
Error!

DVDShrink has failed!
Error:
-> mplex reported an error re-multiplexing the MPEG2!
Command run:
-> nice -+19 mplex -f 8 -o /home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.mpg /home/
eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.m2v /home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.ac3 2> /ho me/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/mplexdebug.txt

Check all your files etc. If it appears that the problem is
ephemeral restart the script with 'dvdshrink --restart'

End of command output
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INFO: [mplex] AC3 frame size = 1792
INFO: [mplex] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 57344 bytes/sec (448 kbit/sec)
INFO: [mplex] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:

See the log file at /home/eric/DVD_VIDEO.log for more information.
Exiting!


Thank you for using OzWare!


Hit any key to close terminal and exit!


It does not matter which movie I try this with, I get the same failure.
In the directory, I get the following files created:


file:///home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/SUBPGM EMPTY
file:///home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.ac3 388.4 MB
file:///home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.m2v 2.6 GB
file:///home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.mpg 0 B
file:///home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.chap 12 B
file:///home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.info 3.6 KB
file:///home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/mplexdebug.txt 1.3 KB
file:///home/eric/rips/DVD_VIDEO/DVD_VIDEO.sub 326.8 KB

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When I re-ran the job, I get the following:
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DVDShrink 2.6.0 - May 21, 2005
Rick Saunders (ozzzy1@gmail.com)
________________________________________________________


ERROR! Invalid option -P

Usage:
dvdshrink [options]
-A|--authoronly Don't burn, just author
-B|--noburn Force no auto-burn
-D|--nodeletefiles Force no file cleanup
-F|--forceburn Don't prompt... just burn
-I|--info DVD Information
-K|--noshrink Don't shrink the video stream
-L|--listall Prompt for title, audio and subtitles
-M|--bigmpegonly Create un-shrunk MPEG2 file only
-O|--saveiso Create an ISO along with the new DVD
-S|--bigstreamonly Create un-shrunk streams only
-T|--showtitles Show the titles on the DVD
-V|--showvalues Variable check
-a|--audio <num|list> The audio stream to rip
-b|--burn Force auto-burn
-c|--configure Re-configure the script
-d|--deletefiles Force file cleanup
-e|--episodes <num> Episodes per DVD
-i|--isoonly ISO only
-k|--shrinkfactor <val> Set your own re-quantization factor
-l|--deletelogs Delete logs
-m|--mpegonly Create a shrunk MPEG2 only
-o|--isodir <dir> Where to save ISO images
-p|--project <name> Project name
-r|--readdevice <dev> The read device
-s|--streamonly Exit after extracting streams
-t|--title <num|list> The title to rip
-u|--subtitle <num|list> The subtitle stream to rip
-v|--version Show version and exit
-w|--writedevice <dev> The write device
-h|--help This help synopsis
--restart Restart from where the script errored
--jumpin Restart from after the script errored
--long-help Expanded help information

Thank you for using OzWare!


Hit any key to close terminal and exit!
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Any help at all would greatly be appreciated!
System Specs:

Athalon @ 2Ghz
Ram 256MB
MB Asus A7V8X-X
OS Mandriva 2006.0

Again, Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
I am not a linux guru in any way, so I am rather lost as to what to do with an error like this. I am happy to say I am 100% Windows Free. I am now forced to have to figure these kinds of problems out, but have been battling this one for over 2 months.

Thanks,

Eric

At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, perhaps emailing ozzzzzzy might be prudent? He'll either be able to help or appreciate the feedback or just delete it.

Maybe the script dvfshrink --restart contains reference to a -P argument when it should be a -p?

I re-mux with the line which came from the Gentoo howto by shiznix, works everytime so maybe its that nice -+19 stuff.

I tried the script you posted and got the following:

[eric@localhost DVD_VIDEO]$ mplex -f 8 -o DVD_VIDEO.mpg DVD_VIDEO.m2v DVD_VIDEO.ac3
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.6.3-rc3 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [mplex] File DVD_VIDEO.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [mplex] File DVD_VIDEO.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
INFO: [mplex] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [mplex] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [mplex] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (DVD_VIDEO.m2v)
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 720
INFO: [mplex] Frame height : 480
INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
INFO: [mplex] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 9800000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [mplex] CSPF : 0
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (DVD_VIDEO.ac3)
INFO: [mplex] AC3 frame size = 1792
INFO: [mplex] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 57344 bytes/sec (448 kbit/sec)
INFO: [mplex] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
Illegal instruction
[eric@localhost DVD_VIDEO]$


Maybe my mplex is broken? What version of mplex are you using?
I will send this off to Ozz and see what happens.

mplex 1.6.2 (2.2.3)

good luck with it

Problem Fixed.

It appears to be a Mandriva bug. I had a post out on the Mandriva site as well and someone else heard of it. I followed the sugestions listed and it fixed it.
Thanks all for the help.

//qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18242



Eric