Hello! I used to use this process of ripping and encoding several years ago, successfully and happily. In the time since, I've been buying my movies digitally and didn't have to worry about ripping content anymore. However, I now have a need to do some ripping again, and am having some problems updating all the various components in the pipeline.
I have skimmed through the updated initial posts, as well as the last couple pages- but I hope you will forgive me for not reading the entire 50+ pages of this thread.
The process seems to be breaking down for me because of Fairmount. I have googled and read about how necessary library files are no longer included, and have tried suggested steps of downloading those library files separately, or downloading an older version of VLC and moving its library files around. No matter what I try I either get the error message stating Fairmount can't load the library files, or it outright crashes.
So did I miss something? Is Fairmount still a necessary piece of this operation, or did it get replaced with something else? If someone could point me in the right direction I can probably google myself to the answer.
You need to download and install libdvdcss2. A link is provided in the app menu and in the first post of this thread. The Fairmount app is now included in the app bundle. VLC is not required. Once libdvdcss2 is installed from running its installer, the bundled version of Fairmount should see it. As well as any copies of Handbrake you have installed.
That's the basic setup, but it's hard to tell what's going on without an error log.
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Hi, I might have missed this earlier...but I'm either blind or it hasn't been asked yet
Using the MakeMKV option in the Batch Encode workflow, I'm looking to point it at a directory of BD rips and have it output MKVs of them. Currently, it is putting the finalized MKVs in the source folder that it is encoding them from. How/Can I tell it to put them all in a folder (say, named MKV) when done? Using the handbrake encoding method puts the finalized files in my Encoded folder...looking to do the same with the MakeMKV profile.
Thanks!
You'll have to add some code to batch encode to move the file as it doesn't currently exist. Let me know if you wanna do it and I'll give you the code.