danielgtaylor
DVD ripping stops without an error message
When I try to rip a certain DVD, Arista just stops after half of the film (when the file has ~700MiB) without showing an error message of any kind (no console output at the time it stops). The DVD itself works perfectly (i.e. I can watch it in totem).
I've experienced something similar recently too. It seems the DVD elements are still pretty buggy in GStreamer. I can't use the same ones as Totem as they are very limited. Instead I have to use dvdreadsrc and such, but they don't seem to work well at all. I'm not sure what I can do about this, but I may open a few bugs upstream to try and get these issues on the radar to be fixed.
I have the same problem on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I'm running Arista Transcoder 0.9.7 and the transcode stops without warning or error message at 1:01:53 into a 1:42:06 job regardless of the output profile setting selected.
@skyspeedr unfortunately it seems that not much has changed since my post above from 2011. If you are mostly interested in ripping DVDs I might suggest Handbrake, which I've used in the past and has been great.
@danielgtaylor I tried using Handbrake, and even tried it again after your suggestion, but it crashes every time I point it at my source. It starts reading the titles but seems to crash before it finishes.