Please see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-452441-highlight-dvdrip.html # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-g ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre17 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disable ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe -m32" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/t CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe -m32" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox s GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/ http://213.186.33.37/gent http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb b li crypt ctype cups dba dbus divx4linux dri dts dv dvd dvdread eds emacs emacs-w ftp gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript j e mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam ssion simplexml slang soap sockets speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl subtitles svga s sb vcd vdr videos vidix vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLA # emerge dvdrip transcode -pv <<-- already emerged both [ebuild R ] media-video/dvdrip-0.97.8 USE="cdr ogg subtitles xvid -gnome -minimal -mplayer -rar" 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-video/transcode-1.0.2-r2 USE="3dnow X a52 dv dvdread fame gtk jpeg mmx mp3 mpeg ogg quicktime sdl sse sse2 truetype vorbis xml xvid -extrafilters -imagemagick -lzo -mjpeg -network -theora -v4l2" 0 kB
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129402 ***
When launching dvdrip it throws up a box listing dependancies some of which are required some are optional. Transcode is required and although it is installed dvdrip seems not to be able to find it. Also have tried the reccomended version of transcode which dvdrip specifies.