How-To: Automating DVD & Blu-Ray (Backup, Encoding & Tagging) for Mac OS X

[tahitibub]

ANNOUNCEMENT: BATCH RIP ACTIONS UPDATED

Update 2010-12-20

Release Notes
Batch Rip Actions for Automator 1.0.6

Everything

• Provides general fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and functionality of Batch Rip Actions for Automator.

Batch Rip.action - UPDATED

• Improved compatibility with MakeMKV.
• Removed the built-in delay for multiple optical drives. This functionality has been moved to Batch Rip Dispatcher.
• Added a timeout setting which allows the Action to skip a disc if Fairmount has trouble reading its content.
• Updated the Sanity Check feature to provide additional feedback if setup isn't configured properly … with any luck you won't even see it.
• EXPERIMENTAL: Added support for MakeMKV's full BD backup feature which copies the entire Blu-ray disc structure. May not work with certain discs or drives.
• Changes the Finder Color Labels of the disc folders to Yellow if copied successfully; Red if the Action encounters an error. Useful for Hazel or other scripting apps.
• Added "Search for Title" feature which allows for searching themoviedb.org or thetvdb.com for the correct titles of your source discs. Copies will be named with the titles selected. Useful for automatically adding iTunes tags later.

Batch Encode.action - UPDATED

THIS UPDATE REQUIRES THE LATEST NIGHTLY BUILD OF HANDBRAKECLI

• Added secondary encode option for DVD/SD sources. Two encode types are now available for both HD and SD sources.
• Added support for HandBrake's Device Presets. Encode settings can now be selected for compatibility with Apple devices.
• Added support for direct "input" to encode the given source(s). You can use the Service "Batch Rip • Batch Encode (Finder)" to pass sources to this action. You can also select items in the Finder and run the Service on the selected items. See the Batch Encode (Finder) Service below for more info.
• Updated the Sanity Check feature to provide additional feedback if setup isn't configured properly … with any luck you won't even see it.
• Added additional feedback on title duration. Provides a list of titles/durations if scan failed to find a title within the min/max duration set in the Action.
• Added a notification if the Action failed to scan the source for title info.
• Changed the way cnID numbers are allocated. cnID's are now generated by a random number calculation, rather than sequentially.
• Added option to keep MakeMKV temp files. These files contain all the original audio and subtitle tracks. Warning: You could run outta disk space pretty fast.
• Added additional support for Finder Color Labels. Source folders change to Green while processing; Red if the Action encounters an error; Gray if it's done. Output files (m4v or mkv) change to Green if they're done, and Red if the action sees an error with the file. Useful for Hazel or other scripting apps.
• Updated the Verbose mode to provide additional information during processing.
• Added Content Ratings, Long Description and Chapter Title support to the Add iTunes Tags feature.
• Changed the way MakeMKV accesses optical drives while processing.
• Added a "File Integrity Test" to verify that MKV and MP4 output files are valid. Provides notification if files fail verification.
• Added a test to check available disk space on destination volume. Provides notification if drive has less capacity than the source. The action will skip sources that exceed capacity.

Batch Rip Dispatcher - UPDATED

• Changed the way Batch Rip Dispatcher sends source input to the Batch Rip Action.
• Added a dialog visible when multiple optical drives are present. Prompts the user to launch while waiting for additional discs to mount. This feature can be disabled by using the auto-run option in the Batch Rip Service.
• Improved the Reset and Enable functions. Reset now clears all existing discs from its record. Clicking Enable now immediately scans for mounted discs and sends them as input to Batch Rip.

Add Movie Tags - UPDATED

• Added feature to preserve/set the cnid tag of the movie files.
• Added support for adding Chapter Titles from tagchimp.
• Original files are now moved to the Trash, rather than kept in its original location as a duplicate. Note: The "Replace existing file" option remains unchanged.

Add TV Tags - UPDATED

• Added feature to preserve/set the cnid tag of the movie files.
• Original files are now moved to the Trash, rather than kept in its original location as a duplicate. Note: The "Replace existing file" option remains unchanged.

Rename TV Source Folders - NEW ACTION

• This action searches thetvdb.com for shows matching the query and renames items to the selected search result and user specified season and disc number.

NEW SERVICES

Batch Rip • Add Chapter Names (Custom)

• This service has two functions: 1) Will export an editable chapter text file with timecodes and title placeholders from the selected file. 2) When run again, will import and add chapter titles from a text file named "thefilename.chapters.txt" located in the same directory as the movie file.

Batch Rip • Add Chapter Names (Filename)

• This service will search tagChimp for chapter titles matching the movie file's filename and add them to the file.

Batch Rip • Add Chapter Names (Search)

• This service will search tagChimp for titles matching a search query and return matching titles. If chapters are found for the selected title, they will be added to the movie file.

Batch Rip • Add cnID to Selected (Same).workflow

• This service add the same cnID number to selected movie files. Useful for SD/HD encodes.

Batch Rip • Add cnID to Selected (Unique).workflow

• This service add a unique cnID number to each selected movie files.

Batch Rip • Add HD Flag.workflow

• This service enables the HD flag in iTunes for HD encoded movie files.

Batch Rip • Rename TV Source Folders.workflow

• This service searches thetvdb.com for shows matching the query and renames the selected items to the search results and user specified season and disc numbers.

Batch Rip • Rename & Add Custom Title Tag.workflow

• This service allows you to enter a custom title for your movie file. The service will rename the file and add the title as iTunes metadata to the file.

Batch Rip • Batch Encode (Finder).workflow

• This service will encode the selected source files with the Batch Encode action. Accepts input from Hazel or other scripts. You can also select items in the Finder and run the Service on the selected items.
  
• To run the workflow from Terminal or from a script you'll need to use the following commands to input files to the "automator" command line tool. Here's an example of how to process a single source:
  
  

  automator -i "/Users/username/Movies/The Office (US) - S1D1" "/Users/username/Library/Services/Batch Rip • Batch Encode (Finder).workflow"

• To input multiple files, you'll need to pipe the input files as a list with each source on its own line. Here's an example:
  
  

  echo -e "/Users/username/Movies/The Office (US) - S1D1\n/Users/username/Movies/The Office (US) - S1D2" | automator -i - "/Users/username/Library/Services/Batch Rip • Batch Encode (Finder).workflow"

  
  The important thing to note is that the sources are quoted in one string. The echo command is given the option "-e" and between each source path is the command "\n", which is a newline character. The automator tool's input command "-i" is given the " - " as input, which means it will use the standard input piped into it as input to the workflow.

Hi Mac.Jedi,

Thanks for your fantastic work.

One thing : how could I setup the batch.encode script in order to automatically encode french and english audio of any DVD (SD) in an MKV container ? Same question for subtitles/caption ...

Regards

 

[displaced]

Superb!

This is absolutely fantastic!

We've got most of our movie DVDs ripped to properly-renamed VIDEO_TS folders for use with Plex.

However, we'd stumbled trying to find a good method for ripping and encoding TV shows on DVD. This looks great!

Just one question:

I've turned off the 'Ignore Optical Drives' function in Batch Encode. The batch encode action seems to do just fine with the actual ripping as well as the encoding. The nice thing with this is that the rip occurs during the encoding rather than happening as a separate (lengthy) step.

However, Batch Encode doesn't seem to create files named in a format that the Rename & Tag TV Items can deal with. So, now I've got a bunch of files named <DISCNAME>-<TITLENUMBER>.m4v in my Batch Encode folder. What do I do now to get these into a nice subfolder named <SHOWNAME> with the files named with the standard <SHOWNAME> S<SERIESNUMBER>E<EPISODENUMBER> format?

I understand that the Batch Rip action, followed by the Batch Encode (with 'Ignore Optical' turned on) will work correctly, but this takes significantly longer since the entire disc must be ripped before encoding and renaming.

Thanks again for your hard work and for any help you can provide!

Regards,
Chris

 

[mstrze]

I understand that the Batch Rip action, followed by the Batch Encode (with 'Ignore Optical' turned on) will work correctly, but this takes significantly longer since the entire disc must be ripped before encoding and renaming.

Encoding directly from a DVD (without ripping to your HDD) creates unnecessary strain on your optical drive. Since encoding sometimes takes longer than real-time, your optical drive will be spinning much more than if you just ripped the entire contents of the disc to your HDD.

Also, with TV shows, often there can be as many as 8 or 10 episodes on one DVD. This means spinning-up and down your optical drive 8-10 times instead of only once with ripping...again...it's the wear-and-tear that's the killer.

 

[speckryche]

Thank you very much for the wonderful tools here!
New to your setup today - but so far so good!
I have a few random questions if you don't mind

#1 - after a DVD rips > encodes > imports to iTunes (how I have it setup) -- do you see a reason to keep the ripped copy that resides in the 'Batch Rip Movies' file? My thought is to delete that for space reasons?
If I do end up deleting the rip file, what do you suggest to automate that piece? FYI I am using the Hazel to move / import to iTunes my encoded movies.

#2 - Unrelated but curious if you have an answer - when I put a blu-ray disk in my iMac it ejects it after a bit. I have not installed your BR suggested software yet - only the DVD setup. But I know that my MAC spits out BR disks now so thinking it will be the same -- any thoughts on this?

I think that is all for now - thanks again sir Jedi!

 

[gunthermic]

Thank you very much for the wonderful tools here!
New to your setup today - but so far so good!
I have a few random questions if you don't mind

#1 - after a DVD rips > encodes > imports to iTunes (how I have it setup) -- do you see a reason to keep the ripped copy that resides in the 'Batch Rip Movies' file? My thought is to delete that for space reasons?
If I do end up deleting the rip file, what do you suggest to automate that piece? FYI I am using the Hazel to move / import to iTunes my encoded movies.

#2 - Unrelated but curious if you have an answer - when I put a blu-ray disk in my iMac it ejects it after a bit. I have not installed your BR suggested software yet - only the DVD setup. But I know that my MAC spits out BR disks now so thinking it will be the same -- any thoughts on this?

I think that is all for now - thanks again sir Jedi!

Welcome to using this powerful scritping from mac.jedi..

To answer your #1 question.

I keep the Ripped Copy for several reasons, 1 in case I want to re-encode in future for another device/resolution. 2. Incase I decide to set up Plex, in that case I am all set. 3, keeps a backup of the movie in case of damage to origninal DVD

If you decide to not keep it, Set up a rule in Hazel to look for the color label "grey" which is the label this script leave the Ripped folder as once it is down encoding, and delete the folder. So have Hazel watch the "Batch Rip Movies" folder. Mine moves my encoded movie into a Movie Hold directory if it fails to get chapter titles, other wise moves to iTunes and then moves the ripped movie to an external HD for storage.

Beleive me keeping the ripped folder has saved me so much time. Once encoded and you watch it at some time and find the encode had a problem, audio out of sync, pixelation, I just copy over the ripped copy back over and re-encode again.

 

[dhy8386]

This is absolutely fantastic!

We've got most of our movie DVDs ripped to properly-renamed VIDEO_TS folders for use with Plex.

However, we'd stumbled trying to find a good method for ripping and encoding TV shows on DVD. This looks great!

Just one question:

I've turned off the 'Ignore Optical Drives' function in Batch Encode. The batch encode action seems to do just fine with the actual ripping as well as the encoding. The nice thing with this is that the rip occurs during the encoding rather than happening as a separate (lengthy) step.

However, Batch Encode doesn't seem to create files named in a format that the Rename & Tag TV Items can deal with. So, now I've got a bunch of files named <DISCNAME>-<TITLENUMBER>.m4v in my Batch Encode folder. What do I do now to get these into a nice subfolder named <SHOWNAME> with the files named with the standard <SHOWNAME> S<SERIESNUMBER>E<EPISODENUMBER> format?

I understand that the Batch Rip action, followed by the Batch Encode (with 'Ignore Optical' turned on) will work correctly, but this takes significantly longer since the entire disc must be ripped before encoding and renaming.

Thanks again for your hard work and for any help you can provide!

Regards,
Chris

Bottom line is that from dvd, you will need to give them an initial name before using another program to tag them. Mac.jedi provides great renaming scripts but the most flexible robust solution i have found is a program called TVnamer. Here is a link where i discuss its potential in more detail.

http://www.noodlesoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3416#p3416

 

[speckryche]

Forgive me if this was covered but curious - on some DVD's if I play them on my MAC with DVD Player for example, it is wide or full screen. Then once I rip and encode that same movie, it plays back in square format (forget the aspect ratio) - is there a setting or something to change to get the wide / full screen for playback?
Thank you.

 

[displaced]

Encoding directly from a DVD (without ripping to your HDD) creates unnecessary strain on your optical drive. Since encoding sometimes takes longer than real-time, your optical drive will be spinning much more than if you just ripped the entire contents of the disc to your HDD.

Thanks!

My 2.8GHz i7 MBP encodes at an average of about 33 fps from a PAL (25fps) DVD. So I'm averaging faster-than-realtime. But I'll bear this in mind for the future.

I've also got an older external DVD drive which is fully region-unlocked and seems to be able to rip pretty much everything, no matter what crazy protection Disney or Sony throw on their discs. That drive's tough, so I don't mind pushing it a bit

Bottom line is that from dvd, you will need to give them an initial name before using another program to tag them. Mac.jedi provides great renaming scripts but the most flexible robust solution i have found is a program called TVnamer. Here is a link where i discuss its potential in more detail.

Well, the Batch Rip action does the first part -- it'll name the files according to the show name and disc/title numbers, but I'm hitting a small problem:

I've set the Batch Rip action to use MakeMKV for DVD ripping. It seems to have less trouble with decoding recent DVDs than FairMount. However, I'm having a problem with this setting and TV Show DVDs.

I have a boxset (Peep Show) with 6 DVDs, one per season and 6 episodes as separate titles per disc.

When using Batch Rip with MakeMKV, I get a set of MKV files in my Batch Rip folder named, e.g.: Peep Show - S2D1-1.mkv through to Peep Show - S2D1-6.mkv where the last number is the title number on the disc.

... which all seems fine. But then I'll run the Batch Encode script. The encoded m4v files have odd names like:

Peep Show - S2D1-1-1.m4v through to Peep Show - S2D1-6-1.m4v

This then breaks the Rename and Tag TV Items action. However, if I remove the trailing '-1', then this action works.

Am I doing something really stupid?

Cheers,
Chris

 

[mstrze]

Thanks!

My 2.8GHz i7 MBP encodes at an average of about 33 fps from a PAL (25fps) DVD. So I'm averaging faster-than-realtime. But I'll bear this in mind for the future.

BUT...ripping the full contents of a DVD into my Mac takes maybe 45 minutes. If I was to encode directly from a DVD from a TV show disc which may contain 3 hours of video would take me a little over 3 hours of disc-spinning (you a little under 3). Encoding is not necessarily the issue...I may not have been clear enough. It's an extra 2.25 hours of DVD motor spinning that is not needed.

This is a significant strain on even the best optical drive. Since it sounds like you have a really nice one, I would think the extra step of ripping would be beneficial to protect the drive from unnecessary wear and tear.

 

[displaced]

BUT...ripping the full contents of a DVD into my Mac takes maybe 45 minutes. If I was to encode directly from a DVD from a TV show disc which may contain 3 hours of video would take me a little over 3 hours of disc-spinning (you a little under 3). Encoding is not necessarily the issue...I may not have been clear enough. It's an extra 2.25 hours of DVD motor spinning that is not needed.

This is a significant strain on even the best optical drive. Since it sounds like you have a really nice one, I would think the extra step of ripping would be beneficial to protect the drive from unnecessary wear and tear.

Ah, gotcha I'll stick to the two-stage process.

Anyway, I've turned from TV show encoding to movie ripping using these actions. Trying to figure out why my encoded m4v files have only AAC 2-channel audio instead of AC3 DD5.1.

The MKV files created by the rip have AC3 5.1 (according to QT7's Movie Info panel), but the AppleTV2 preset appears to be downmixing this in the encode.

(the film is Star Trek: Nemesis. Not my favourite, but ripping for completeness )

EDIT: Ok - it seems that it's creating M4V's with two audio tracks - one AAC (2ch) and a second with the AC3 track. Unfortunately, Plex (which I'm ripping these discs for) is, understandably, defaulting to the primary track and giving me stereo output instead of AC3.

How do I change the action to encode with AC3 as the main audio track?

EDIT 2: Sorted. I just had to enable Automatically select audio stream in Plex's preferences. It now prefers the discrete 5.1 track over the AAC track. Oddly, the in-player Audio menu identifies the track as 'AC3 Stereo', but my amplifier's showing DD5.1 with all six channels and it's obvious when listening that all channels are present.

Just need to decide whether I'll continue to compress to m4v or just keep the MKVs...

 

[^^ CoolMacLover]

Hay mac.jedi. First off. GREAT JOB! I love this

But alas, I can't work out something, I don't know what I've done to screw it up.

While encoding a dvd (Will & Grace) It comes up with:

*Scanning Folder: 'WILL_AND_GRACE_S1_D4'
  Will encode the following tracks: 2, 3, 4, 5, 9

But... what happened to 1, 6, 7, 8... I looked at the times, I changed the times so it when for the little shorter ones. But this did nothing.

My times I've set to make sure it works right is 10 mins to 120 mins. Don't know if this is the problem.

When I encode it, it encodes the parts it rips, which its right. But the files it ends up ripping arent the ones I need, nor want. (Such as, it will rip "Extras" instead of the eps) I'll try another disk and see what happens. Update: When i tried another disk, its still doing the same thing. It skips an ep. :/

 

[gunthermic]

Hay mac.jedi. First off. GREAT JOB! I love this

But alas, I can't work out something, I don't know what I've done to screw it up.

While encoding a dvd (Will & Grace) It comes up with:

*Scanning Folder: 'WILL_AND_GRACE_S1_D4'
  Will encode the following tracks: 2, 3, 4, 5, 9

But... what happened to 1, 6, 7, 8... I looked at the times, I changed the times so it when for the little shorter ones. But this did nothing.

When I encode it, it encodes the parts it rips, which its right. But the files it ends up ripping arent the ones I need, nor want. (Such as, it will rip "Extras" instead of the eps) I'll try another disk and see what happens.

If I remember right, first the track numbers doesn't really matter. It goes based upon the min/max time you set. The best way if you suspect is to find out how many episodes is acutally on the disc.

 

[^^ CoolMacLover]

If I remember right, first the track numbers doesn't really matter. It goes based upon the min/max time you set. The best way if you suspect is to find out how many episodes is acutally on the disc.

Yeah i counted it, 7 (including the extras) all run between the times ive set (10 - 120) so that should be fine. I did another disk. All the eps are found and ripped fine with no problems... Hmmm... *starches head*

I don't think it matters now, but my encoding times are 20 - 120. I know this doesnt matter now, with it being it to do with the Ripping. Just adding that

 

[speckryche]

I notice that sometimes a file that gets moved from Batch Rip to Batch Encode gets changed to orange color. The file seems to encode just fine - so curious if the orange signifies an issue? Pretty sure they normally get changed to green if all goes well on the encoding.
Any thoughts?
Thank you!

 

[mstrze]

Question for Mac Jedi:

Is the current (as of the week before Christmas at least) process encoding for ATV2 by default and not ATV1?

I did 5 movies last weekend using the latest builds and scripts that refuse to play back on my 40GB ATV. I have audio, but no picture AND the ATV reboots itself...sending me to a language select screen and then a recovery mode screen and eventually to the opening movie and main menu when the reboot is done.

They play back fine on my iMac, but not on my 'old' ATV.

Just wondering if the encodes are now created with a frame rate/resolution/etc that the old ATV cannot handle?

 

[gunthermic]

I notice that sometimes a file that gets moved from Batch Rip to Batch Encode gets changed to orange color. The file seems to encode just fine - so curious if the orange signifies an issue? Pretty sure they normally get changed to green if all goes well on the encoding.
Any thoughts?
Thank you!

Orange means that Chapter Title Names were not found or matched.

I have hazel move mine into a hold folder to be looked at, to either type in chapter names or find the correct match of tagChimp.

Red means file integerity check failed.

Green means file encoded, chapters names added and meta data added.

 

[tahitibub]

Hi Mac.Jedi,

Thanks for your fantastic work.

Is it possible to setup the batch.encode script in order to keep two different audio languages (for exemple : english and french) when encoding a DVD ?

Regards

 

[alFR]

Is the current (as of the week before Christmas at least) process encoding for ATV2 by default and not ATV1?

The versions I have (latest ones AFAIK) are set to encode DVD sources by default using the Apple TV preset from Handbrake. You should be able to see what setting the action is using if you open the batch encode action in Automator (in your user folder/Library/Services): mac.jedi describes this at the start of the thread in about post 3. If yours is using something different you can select the Apple TV preset (or whichever preset you want) from the dropdown list.

 

[displaced]

Ok - I'm chugging away nicely with my set-up:

On insert of a DVD, I've got an AppleScript which runs - this calls the Batch Rip (Finder) workflow to kick off ripping the DVD (using MakeMKV).

However, I'm now working on multi-drive simultaneous ripping. I can see that I might run in to a problem.

Whilst ripping with MakeMKV, the Batch Rip workflow creates a temporary mkv file named after the title number of the feature being ripped.

For example, I currently have two discs ripping, one with Title 0 as the main feature, and the other with Title 6. So, in my Batch Rip folder I now have two temp mkv's named:

title00.mkv and title06.mkv

Now, what happens when I have two DVDs whose main titles are the same title number?

Will MakeMKV handle this automatically, or will the two simultaneous rips (of the same title number) try to overwrite each other?

If it's the latter, is there anything that could be changed in the Batch Rip action that could work around this?

Thanks,
Chris

EDIT: Bah. Answered my own question -- they both try to rip to the same file:

Minerva:~ chris$ lsof | grep title
makemkvco 55717 chris   14u     REG       14,2 187564032 2885958 /Users/chris/Movies/Batch Rip Movies/title00.mkv
makemkvco 56041 chris   14u     REG       14,2 186777600 2885958 /Users/chris/Movies/Batch Rip Movies/title00.mkv

Can the Batch Rip action be tweaked to provide a random (or otherwise) output filename to makemkvcon? I see the current command line for makemkvcon is:

chris    55717   5.2 14.0   791132 585280   ??  U    12:33am   0:35.18 /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/MacOS/makemkvcon mkv --messages=-null --progress=/tmp/batchRip-55222/HannibalRising2007/0-makemkv.txt disc:1 0 /Users/chris/Movies/Batch Rip Movies
chris    56041   2.8 13.2   791628 554188   ??  U    12:33am   0:20.72 /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/MacOS/makemkvcon mkv --messages=-null --progress=/tmp/batchRip-55480/BigTroubleinLittleChina1986/0-makemkv.txt disc:0 0 /Users/chris/Movies/Batch Rip Movies

... perhaps the Batch Rip action could amend this command line to use different output names?

Also, I've noticed that there's a problem with automatically ejecting the discs when multi-drive ripping. The first disc that completes cannot be ejected. It un-mounts from the desktop but does not eject. Disk Utility, when used to manually eject the disc, reports that it's in-use. However, lsof doesn't show anything accessing the drive. Very odd!

 

[gunthermic]

Ok - I'm chugging away nicely with my set-up:

On insert of a DVD, I've got an AppleScript which runs - this calls the Batch Rip (Finder) workflow to kick off ripping the DVD (using MakeMKV).

title00.mkv and title06.mkv

Now, what happens when I have two DVDs whose main titles are the same title number?

EDIT: Bah. Answered my own question -- they both try to rip to the same file:

Minerva:~ chris$ lsof | grep title
makemkvco 55717 chris   14u     REG       14,2 187564032 2885958 /Users/chris/Movies/Batch Rip Movies/title00.mkv
makemkvco 56041 chris   14u     REG       14,2 186777600 2885958 /Users/chris/Movies/Batch Rip Movies/title00.mkv

Chris,

I have never tried using MKV to do the DVD'd I always use Fairmount. I can certainly see in the code why this can be happening.

I am sure mac.jedi can do something about it.

I noticed that about the eject as well, so stopped using that. If one gets stuck i just "drutil eject" in term to eject all dvd's.

Michael

 

[nickwild]

Poster Image

Hi,

This is truly an excellent and most useful series of tools and apps, many thanks Mac.jedi - it has revolutionised my digital video library

I am using Twonky Server which requires an separate image named with the same name as the m4v (i.e. Fargo(1996).jpg) Is there anyway that the Add Movie Poster service can be extended to include this (or a new service created) or can anyone point me in the right direction of doing this through Applescript or Automator.

Many thanks


Nick

 

[steve123]

Title specific rip

Hello Jedi.Mac

I searched the thread and could not find any reference to making a title specific rip. I realize that seems counter productive to the idea of a "batch" ripping process but I have a number of DVD's that need to be ripped using this method. I haven't been able to ascertain if it is possible to make a title specific rip using Fairmount.

So, I am wondering if I could submit a "feature request" for a title specific rip option in a future update.

Great scripts. Thank you.

 

[dhy8386]

Hello Jedi.Mac

I searched the thread and could not find any reference to making a title specific rip. I realize that seems counter productive to the idea of a "batch" ripping process but I have a number of DVD's that need to be ripped using this method. I haven't been able to ascertain if it is possible to make a title specific rip using Fairmount.

So, I am wondering if I could submit a "feature request" for a title specific rip option in a future update.

Great scripts. Thank you.

In the new 1.06 he released, there are specific services for ripping and encoding individual files. They are called Batch Rip (Finder) and Batch Encode (Finder). These allow you to input specific files for processing. Its a little misleading because these services still contain the batch rip folders but they are ignored.

 

[steve123]

In the new 1.06 he released, there are specific services for ripping and encoding individual files. They are called Batch Rip (Finder) and Batch Encode (Finder). These allow you to input specific files for processing. Its a little misleading because these services still contain the batch rip folders but they are ignored.

Thanks for that. Do you know how to set up a title specific rip? For instance, to properly rip "Up" requires that you rip a specific title on the disc. Is there a way to control Fairmount through Batch Rip to do that?

 

[dhy8386]

Not sure how fairmont works but i actually used this to rip/encode Up the other day. However, I had already removed the CP using anydvdHD. But from that point on, i just used batch encode to convert all the way into M4V. Had no problems with MKVMerge through handbrake.

Fairmont doesnt just remove the CP on the disc? You need to specify the correct files?