Well, everything is nearly working - or nearly everything.

first off - I have looked for hours through the forums, and I haven't been satisfied with my search results - so here goes:

Pentium IV - 2.4 - basic shuttle micropc with DVD drive/burner, 200 gb hard drive etc..

... upgraded now to R5C7 -

Samba, game, videos, nice new look , weather, news, DVD play works (including the <example> type), and I can 'kinda' rip DVDs.

... I can rip dvds into .iso
... I can rip dvds PERFECT to .vob
... I used to rip GOOD to get an AVI -
My dvd does mount, I have changed the mount point from /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom and back again - works the same...
-when I try to RIP in Good or MEDIUM - I get the error of no jobs and nothing to do (as far as I can remember -I am at work ) - then it quits. When I try ISO and PERFECT - it does what it is supposed to do.

I have upgraded XVID, and even accepted and installed DIVX legally - and I have a CODEC pack - but WHERE do I put the CODEC pack - is this the problem? does it go into /usr/lib/......... ?? where?

What is the transcode line command - it just says 'transcode' in the DVD ri p settings.... and I can't remember the total command line above it - it was fairly involved.

Any or all advice is greatly appreciated. I know I had this problem before - and do you think I wrote it down?! no!

Is this a CODEC problem?? Everything is working... kinda...

And it REALLY bugs me to have to rip a DVD into .avi on my XP winblows machine...

(yes I searched the forum, the wiki, google, linux questions, and I even went to the well at www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode

HELP! and Thanks! Knoppmyth rocks - but I am kicking myself for upgrading.

I have an update - with mencoder, I can change to .avi ... manually - so it is in the configuration -

Can anyone post their working command line for DVD Ripping? thanks!

R5D1 upgrade.

Works great - I have NO idea what did it - but it works now - so that is the easiest solution