Announcement: Batch Rip Actions for Automator updated

[mac.jedi]

Just thought some of you might like to know that I've updated the Automating DVD and Blu-Ray (Backup, Encoding and Tagging) tutorial which shows you how to automate DVD and BD encoding through Automator actions and Services. Enjoy!

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=805573


ANNOUNCEMENT: BATCH RIP ACTIONS UPDATED

Update 2011-11-13

Release Notes
Batch Rip Actions for Automator 1.0.9

NOTE: The tutorial has been updated as well for v1.0.9. Additional help is available via the Help menu in the app.

1.0.9 build 257

• Provides general fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and functionality of Batch Rip Actions for Automator
• No more Action installer! Just drag Batch Rip Actions for Automator.app to /Applications
• Actions are now located within Batch Rip Actions for Automator.app
• Opening the app will update Launch Services and automatically add the actions to the Automator library
• On first run, a new install/upgrade option will notify you if it needs to update the Actions and workflows
• Batch Rip Actions for Automator Sparkles! Added support for the Sparkle framework which will automatically alert you of future product upgrades; and quickly get your installation up-to-date
• New Workflow Editor! Quickly and easily setup, update and save your Batch Rip workflows all in one interface
• Batch Rip Dispatcher is now part of the app UI. Just click on the status icon or text in toolbar to toggle it on or off. The Batch Rip Dispatcher action & workflow have been deprecated
• New Action Editor! View and edit the Batch Rip Action script files... if you're daring enough
• New Batch Encode for iCal! Easily setup a repeating iCal alarm to automatically run Batch Encode at the time and interval you set
• Tagging is now performed by SublerCLI!
• mp4v2, SublerCLI and AtomicParsley are now included in the app bundle
• Added an "indeterminate progress indicator" for the tagging actions (the spin-thingy in the menu bar). Note: this doesn't control workflow, just shows that it's running
• Rename Movie Items.action has been deprecated. Functionality moved to Add Movie Tags.action
• Rename and Tagging actions now return the output files as a list for chaining actions
• New Help via the Help menu and Mac's Help Center
• The Batch Rip (Finder) & Batch Encode (Finder) workflows use their "non-Finder" workflow's settings. No more having to set options in both versions.
• Other things that I've already forgotten about

Note: Sadly, but with no remorse, Snow Leopard is no longer supported in v1.0.9. There's very little reason not to upgrade to Lion at this point, so I'm just gonna focus on Lion.

Add TV Tags.action

• New option: Search tvdb and tag specific episode files
• Improved performance, search and handling of non ASCII characters.
• New option: Backup original before tagging
• New option: Optimize file after tagging

Rename TV Items.action

• Now renames source folders or files using the tvdb API
• Batch renaming tv show files made easy. Search tvdb for the show, enter season and episode number to start and it renames all the files: Show Name - S##E##.m4v

Add Movie Tags.action

• Renames files or folders
• Improved performance, search and handling of non ASCII characters.
• New option: Backup original before tagging
• New option: Optimize file after tagging

Batch Encode.action

• Features tagging updates made in Add TV Tags.action
• Fixed an issue where the min-time was being overridden by the GUI's preferences.

Thanks!

mac.jedi

[drmjc]

Hi mac.jedi,
firstly thanks for creating such a great toolkit! The new UI is really slick too.

I stumbled across this >6mths ago & felt it really hit the nail on the head. I've made some changes, as I found my MBP too slow to rip my DVD collection, so i built a PC with 4 DVD drives. I ripped discs to VOB's stored on a large NAS, and using some highperformance computing infrastructure, ripped them to m4v using a handbrake + SGE script that I wrote.
Now I have ~800 m4v files which need tagging...

Would you be able to point me in the direction of making 2 changes, or perhaps be interested in implementing these?

First, my files are named with a slightly different pattern to yours, most often due to a different hyphenation style in movie sequels, eg "X-Men The Last Stand (2006).m4v" (your style) vs "X-Men - The Last Stand (2006).m4v" (my style). These movie names are ever so close that it seems like a minor update to allow the 'add movie tags (filename)' action to find these matches

Second, can an option be added to the 'add movie tags (filename)' service to not stop on error. It would be great to select all movies, hit 'tag' then for the moviesthat couldn't be found, run the 'add movies tags (search)' service later.

sh is not my strongest programming language, so i'll make a start, but look forward to you pointing me in the right direction?

cheers,
Mark

[mdisibio]

Hi, I think the mkvinfo output has changed recently, and now batchEncode.sh has trouble finding the correct track IDs to encode.

On one of my files mkvinfo is outputting additional info after the track ID:
| + Track number: 1 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 0)


In getTrackListWithinDuration, when sourceType is file, it no longer returns just the "1", but the rest of the output within the parentheses, which generates a lot of garbage downstream.

I fixed it by adding an additional sed command to remove everything beginning with the open paren:

sed -e 's|^Track number: ||' -e 's|,.*||' -e 's|(.*||'


Not sure how common this is, but I wanted to share this change with you.

[kyevey]

Originally Posted by mdisibio

Hi, I think the mkvinfo output has changed recently, and now batchEncode.sh has trouble finding the correct track IDs to encode.

On one of my files mkvinfo is outputting additional info after the track ID:
| + Track number: 1 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 0)


In getTrackListWithinDuration, when sourceType is file, it no longer returns just the "1", but the rest of the output within the parentheses, which generates a lot of garbage downstream.

I fixed it by adding an additional sed command to remove everything beginning with the open paren:

sed -e 's|^Track number: ||' -e 's|,.*||' -e 's|(.*||'


Not sure how common this is, but I wanted to share this change with you.

@mdisibio - I too am having this problem with additional output files for the tracks within the paren's (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 0) on all MKV files (both TV Shows and Movie files).

How do I add the additional sed command that you've provided in your post? I've opened the batchEncode.sh and located the "getTrackListWithinDuration" line item, but unsure where and how to add this comment.

Any guidance is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
Kyevey

[scifi451]

MacJedi thanks again for continuing to update this great application