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How-To: Automating DVD & Blu-Ray (Backup, Encoding & Tagging) for Mac OS X
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Problems with Add Tv Tags-based workflows
Hi
I was having problems with the Add TV Tags action based workflows and have managed to debug and fix in my local copy.
The main.command is trying to get a tvdb mirror, but this now returns a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable Error. According to theTVDB wiki, this is now depracated (and they may have actually now switched off mirrors.xml).
So, to fix I have just set tvdbMirror="http://thetvdb.com".
Thanks for all the excellent automator workflows - although I'm able to debug this I wouldn't have known where to start building form scratch!
Hi
I was having problems with the Add TV Tags action based workflows and have managed to debug and fix in my local copy.
The main.command is trying to get a tvdb mirror, but this now returns a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable Error. According to theTVDB wiki, this is now depracated (and they may have actually now switched off mirrors.xml).
So, to fix I have just set tvdbMirror="http://thetvdb.com".
Thanks for all the excellent automator workflows - although I'm able to debug this I wouldn't have known where to start building form scratch!
I'm still clueless on how subtitles work within the workflow. Ive never gotten them to work, yet I noticed when I ripped my Bourne movies, ta-da, they worked....and I feel that there were subtitles in the last three Bond movies. It seems like magic to me.
I've been having problems setting the contentID for things that aren't in iTunes, ie, Star Wars. When I make an ID up, it seems to revert back to a random contentID within Subler. Anyone have any insight?
Also, any way that when I'm encoding two versions of a movie, (ie ATV3 and iPad) that I can get them to name other than 'Movie (2013).m4v & Movie (2013) 2.m4v'. I'd like them to be 'Movie (2013)-HD.m4v & Movie (2013).m4v'
Other than that, I really can't complain about the workflow....it works
curious about ripping
i own another software app called Ripit that works very, very quickly. much more quickly than fair mount and vlc. just curious if anyone's had any success in importing the .dvdmedia files that ripit creates into the bath/rip automator actions.
i've tried both using the .dvdmedia files and converting them into .iso folders.
i own another software app called Ripit that works very, very quickly. much more quickly than fair mount and vlc. just curious if anyone's had any success in importing the .dvdmedia files that ripit creates into the bath/rip automator actions.
i've tried both using the .dvdmedia files and converting them into .iso folders.
Nothing has changed in my setup recently, and I have a problem.
No audio using iPad preset, but from the same mkv file, I get audio in my AppleTV rips.
Ideas?
Also, what triggers chapter pictures on the iPad? Those seem to be magically working.....
No audio using iPad preset, but from the same mkv file, I get audio in my AppleTV rips.
Ideas?
Also, what triggers chapter pictures on the iPad? Those seem to be magically working.....
Audio problem with the Handbrake built in preset I think on the CLI. When I fired up my new mini, I put the preset variables into Custom 1 and Custom 2, worked like a champ. Very odd
I'm having trouble with getting my Bluray rips to process the same way they used to when I used these automator actions a year ago. I want the mkv rips from blurays to stay as mkv files, but I want the encoder action to strip out the extra languages and audio tracks. Essentially all it used to do was reduce the size of the mkv file and just keep english audio. Does anyone know how to configure them to do this again?
It's faster to rip the Blu-ray Discs to mkv than downloading them.
That being said, to get the versions (AppleTV and iPad) at the quality I want, versus searching and getting a few bad rips from the Internet, it's actually easier and quicker to DIY over 200 movies.
And let's not even start with meta data....my super OCD in action, downloading doesn't cut it, and my ISP wont like the crazy bandwidth I'm using.
Batch Rip Dispatcher
Hi. I am just starting to build this workflow and when I tried activating the Batch Rip Dispatcher I got this error
Batch Rip Dispatcher encountered an error:
launchctl: Couldn't stat("/Users/crdolan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.batchRip.BatchRipDispatcher.plist"): No such file or directory
nothing found to unload
Any suggestions on how I fix this? Thanks, I appreciate the help!
Hi. I am just starting to build this workflow and when I tried activating the Batch Rip Dispatcher I got this error
Batch Rip Dispatcher encountered an error:
launchctl: Couldn't stat("/Users/crdolan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.batchRip.BatchRipDispatcher.plist"): No such file or directory
nothing found to unload
Any suggestions on how I fix this? Thanks, I appreciate the help!
Subtitles
Hi,
I'm struggling to add subtitles to videos. I want to burn in all english (usually track 1) subtitles.
I have found following:
i) video rips ok (I can encode without subtitles)
ii) Original .mkv file has all subtitles. I can play them with VLC
iii) in the process an intermediary .mkv file is created
iv) this file does not contain any subtitles...
No setting helps, custom or preset for HandBrakeCLI ...
I'm on Mountain Lion...
Any idea?
Why intermediary file is created anyway? It looks like it's muxing somethnig...
Thanks!
Vasja
Hi,
I'm struggling to add subtitles to videos. I want to burn in all english (usually track 1) subtitles.
I have found following:
i) video rips ok (I can encode without subtitles)
ii) Original .mkv file has all subtitles. I can play them with VLC
iii) in the process an intermediary .mkv file is created
iv) this file does not contain any subtitles...
No setting helps, custom or preset for HandBrakeCLI ...
I'm on Mountain Lion...
Any idea?
Why intermediary file is created anyway? It looks like it's muxing somethnig...
Thanks!
Vasja
TMDB 2.1 Deprecation
It looks like the API for TMDB 2.1 is now deprecated in favor of TMDB 3. Has anyone explored updating the code to be compliant with v3 queries?
See: http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/
and http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io
Cheers,
Ant
It looks like the API for TMDB 2.1 is now deprecated in favor of TMDB 3. Has anyone explored updating the code to be compliant with v3 queries?
See: http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/
and http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io
Cheers,
Ant
"RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid" & "unterminated substitute pattern"
Hi all
I'm trying to use the scripts but they don't seem to be working properly. I can import the dvd onto the computer using the automatic makemkv script, but then the ical automated encode script just opens the applescript and leaves it displayed on screen. If I manually try and excuse the batch encode (finder) script then I get the following error in Terminal:
Any ideas?
Hi all
I'm trying to use the scripts but they don't seem to be working properly. I can import the dvd onto the computer using the automatic makemkv script, but then the ical automated encode script just opens the applescript and leaves it displayed on screen. If I manually try and excuse the batch encode (finder) script then I get the following error in Terminal:
Code:
batchEncode.sh v1.0.9
Start: Sun 14 Jul 2013 20:07:02 BST
Input directory 1: /Users/williamsonajm/Movies/Batch Rip Movies
Input directory 2: /Users/williamsonajm/Movies/Batch Rip TV
Output directory: /Users/williamsonajm/Movies/Batch Encode
Use optical Drive: No
Encode HD Sources: No
Keep MKV Temp Files: No
Auto-add movie tags: Yes
Retire Existing File: No
Growl me when complete: No
Encode TV Shows between: 20-120 mins
Encode Movies between: 80-180 mins
Native Language: eng (en)
Use Disc's Default Audio Language: Yes
Will Encode: Encode 1/AppleTV 2
WILL PROCESS THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS:
sed: 1: "s|\/Batch Rip TV
.Batch ...": unterminated substitute pattern
sed: 1: "s|\/Batch Rip TV
.Batch ...": unterminated substitute pattern
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ size: ||
": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ size: ||
": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
Batch Rip TV
.Batch
Rip
TV : (Movie)
sed: 1: "s|\/Batch Rip TV
.Batch ...": unterminated substitute pattern
sed: 1: "s|\/Batch Rip TV
.Batch ...": unterminated substitute pattern
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ size: ||
": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ size: ||
": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
PROCESSING: Batch Rip TV
.Batch
Rip
TV
*Scanning File: 'Batch Rip TV
.Batch
Rip
TV'
* ERROR: Batch Rip TV
.Batch
Rip
TV FAILED during processing!
PROCESSING COMPLETE: Batch Rip TV
.Batch
Rip
TV
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
End: Sun 14 Jul 2013 20:07:05 BST
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[Process completed]Any ideas?
You might need to add the -E flag on sed as I outlined here: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16816157/
More sed commands with 'extended' regular expressions
Following up the need to add '-E' to some of the sed commands in batchEncode.sh (thanks jmfinn9
... are there a couple more at lines 548 and 549?
When the script determine the 'size' of the video, from:
to
I was getting similar 'repetition-operator' errors from the sed commands when encoding some video...
I've changed my script and will monitor the results.
Following up the need to add '-E' to some of the sed commands in batchEncode.sh (thanks jmfinn9
... are there a couple more at lines 548 and 549?When the script determine the 'size' of the video, from:
Code:
sourcePixelWidth=`echo "$scanFile" | egrep "\+ size" | sed -e 's|^.*\+ size: ||' -e 's|x.*||'`
sourcePixelHeight=`echo "$scanFile" | egrep "\+ size" | sed -e 's|^.*\+ size: ||' -e 's|, pixel.*||' -e 's|.*x||'`to
Code:
sourcePixelWidth=`echo "$scanFile" | egrep "\+ size" | sed [COLOR="Red"]-E[/COLOR] -e 's|^.*\+ size: ||' -e 's|x.*||'`
sourcePixelHeight=`echo "$scanFile" | egrep "\+ size" | sed [COLOR="Red"]-E[/COLOR] -e 's|^.*\+ size: ||' -e 's|, pixel.*||' -e 's|.*x||'`I was getting similar 'repetition-operator' errors from the sed commands when encoding some video...
I've changed my script and will monitor the results.
Hi,
is it possible to change "Add TV tags" so it will accept two-parted episodes? In my case The Adventures of Tintin feature a lot of episodes with two parts, which I combined or are in one file on the DVD. I named these files S01E01-02, etc. This not being the exact format needed the script will fail. So is it possible to change it so it would still get combined Metadata of episode 1&2 or maybe just of the first one?
Also: Is it possible for the script to ignore anything after SXXEXX so i can add episode names after the number and still be able to get the metadata?
Thanks
is it possible to change "Add TV tags" so it will accept two-parted episodes? In my case The Adventures of Tintin feature a lot of episodes with two parts, which I combined or are in one file on the DVD. I named these files S01E01-02, etc. This not being the exact format needed the script will fail. So is it possible to change it so it would still get combined Metadata of episode 1&2 or maybe just of the first one?
Also: Is it possible for the script to ignore anything after SXXEXX so i can add episode names after the number and still be able to get the metadata?
Thanks
Issue with Batch Rip Dispatcher
Hey guys, I hope this thread is still active.
By default the Batch Rip Dispatcher is on (the green light is shown). When I click it to turn it off I get this error:
And when I turn it on I get this:
I've tried the basic reinstall and reboot, repair disk permissions, but I can't get the dispatcher to work. Nothing happens when I insert a disk.
Thanks!
Hey guys, I hope this thread is still active.
By default the Batch Rip Dispatcher is on (the green light is shown). When I click it to turn it off I get this error:
Code:
Batch Rip Dispatcher encountered an error:
launchctl: Couldn't stat("/Users/----/Library/LaunchAgents/com.batchRip.BatchRipDispatcher.plist"): No such file or directory
nothing found to unloadAnd when I turn it on I get this:
Code:
Batch Rip Dispatcher encountered an error:
chown: /Users/----/Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist: Operation not permittedI've tried the basic reinstall and reboot, repair disk permissions, but I can't get the dispatcher to work. Nothing happens when I insert a disk.
Thanks!
I've been trying to convert some of my TV on DVDs for a while now and never had much luck. With Daria, for example, there are 96 chapter listings on the first Disc with so many having random times. I finally figured out how to rip them correctly and know which one is the 'real' file: