Are there any automatic or semiautomatic tools that will rip a set of DVDs from a tv show, and label the resulting vids (like Show name - s##e## or similar)?

I want to digitize entire series (of DVDs I own) for an in-home streaming server, and it’s super annoying to name each file individually.

  • bestusername@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Have you checked online that someone hasn’t already done it for you? I only rip as a last resort these days; much quicker to download.

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    1 year ago

    I use handbrake makemkv to rip/convert.

    I use filebot to name in bulk. Be careful though, filebot only works if your files are organized correctly.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it will do this, will it? The guide on the A.R.M. website says that it just rips all the titles from DVDs that contain TV shows, and they suggest using FileBot to rename these files afterward.

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        1 year ago

        So? You’d refuse to use a tool that does most of the work because you don’t wanna use the tool that does the rest?

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          It’s still a manual process even with FileBot, though. I guess you could argue that is semiautomatic, but, for a lot of discs, it’s not a hell of a lot easier than doing it manually. You still have to manually look up the show name, manually figure out which episode is in each file, manually split the video file if it has more than one episode in it, manually merge the episode if it’s spread across multiple files, etc.

          My complaint isn’t that it requires using more than one program. My complaint is ARM, even with FileBot, isn’t really a solution. The problem is that there isn’t really a solution. Ripping DVDs is just a crappy process with a lot of manual work involved.

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            1 year ago

            I’m not sure there even exists a way to fully automated it, as that would require automatically identifying the relevant tracks/files and looking up the metadata. I’m not sure there is such a database.

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    Automatically ripping movies is pretty easy, but TV shows often need manual work to get them right.

    Sometimes you’ll get individual videos with the correct chapters, runtimes and they are listed in order, but other times they will be jumbled in random order, or will be one large video that needs to be split manually into episodes.

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    1 year ago

    I ended up writing a Python script that pulls data using tmdb’s api.

    The files still need to be checked though. Dvd authoring is always a crapshoot.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOP
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      1 year ago

      This seems to only be for each disk and is not aware of other disks. So far, it seems that I’ll have to manually rename them to match a convention. I did forget about handbrake, though. It’s a good reminder. Thanks

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    1 year ago

    Uh… yeah. I remember some tools that uses to create vob files or some shit. Man that was like… 15 years ago? … I haven’t had to rip a dvd in ages.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I have all these DVDs, and want to view them without having to switch disks. I remember manually doing it back in the day.

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        1 year ago

        Honestly the best and easiest solution is to just download them from the internet. You can queue up your entire collection using radarr/sonarr and then come back to a bunch of sorted and renamed files ready to watch on your media server.

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    Maybe sonarr could help with the naming. You can rip your CDs and have the files named 1,2,3 and then with sonar import the files and have them renamed to the proper series name and folder structure.

    This may be semi automatic and you will still need a ripping software.

    Other then that filebot is another good option that I have used.