Converting From ISO's

[ptah]

I need some help! Used to have VLC 8.6e but thanks to upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid I now have the latest VLC.

Used to do: sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 anything.iso /mnt/iso

and then open VLC, select play disc, specify /mnt/iso, check out the chapters and then do the stream save option using -TS encapsulation, mpeg4, mpeg audio and every thing worked fine. In fact I have had six VLC instances open converting six DVD ISO's.

Now when I repeat the same process, I can playback from the mounted ISO's but when I convert, VLC simply closes leaving behind the target file and no other information.

Has anyone had success using this technique in the latest VLC?

[ptah]

It is clear that VLC 9.4 has a major bug. It has lost the ability to transcode from a mounted ISO. What a shame.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

To help you, we need messages, to completely understand what your problems is.
To fix this, please be sure before you start the playback to:

1. Open: Tools -> Messages.
2. Set Verbosity to 2
3. Start playback to reproduce your issue
4. Save text in a file or copy into clipboard
5. Then paste the full resulting log here between [​code]and[​/code] (or use Pastebin.com if it's too long)

Also don't forget to name your Operating System and provide the VLC media player version.

[ptah]

J-B,

Sorry, I guess I expected this to be a common problem.

Operating System - Ubuntu 8.1
VLC Version - 9.4

Unfortunately when the save operation starts VLC closes. Under 8.6e I would mount an ISO file, open VLC, open disk, change the device to /mnt/iso, open stream save, set the output file, codec and bit rate, select file destination away it would go.

With VLC 9.4 the target file is created and the player closes. No chance to view the message log. Is the message log saved?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, use the logger, --extraintf logger.

[ptah]

Oh yeah, spent so much trouble free time in 8.6e, forgot that existed. The loggers shows -

a52: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:448000
main error: Failed to create audio filter2
main error: Failed to create audio filter2

I have never seen that before, but other posts have (viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50605&start=0&st=0 ... =a#p163243) -

Re: VLC 0.9.2 "Failed to create audio filter 2" with stream out

Postby VLC_help on Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:49 am
main error: Failed to create audio filter2
there is problem inside VLC. And I can confirm this.

Trac ticket opened.
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2124


As one user posted - just de-select audio codec. I did the same and all is working fine

To summarize -

mount iso file to /mnt/iso
launch VLC
go media > convert/save
chose disk tab and set device to /mnt/iso
chose convert/save
select TS encapsulation, mpeg4 video codec, skip selecting audio codec
specify output file
chose save

All Works Fine - life's small treasure - VLC

FYI - If you want the logger file from the GUI, go tools > add interface > debug logging, perform operations in VLC, check file in /home/user/vlc-log.txt