Yeah... thank you that's great. I'm going to give Hazel a try. Ripping/Encoding going well - I've just finished one (Large) shelf of DVDs and I'm about to start the 2nd!
Racetripper, I've not done any Blu-Rays, so I can't help. Sorry.
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How-To: Automating DVD & Blu-Ray (Backup, Encoding & Tagging) for Mac OS X
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Yeah... thank you that's great. I'm going to give Hazel a try. Ripping/Encoding going well - I've just finished one (Large) shelf of DVDs and I'm about to start the 2nd!
Racetripper, I've not done any Blu-Rays, so I can't help. Sorry.
Newbie to Mac Ripping and Video
I have always used a PC for my ripping and video encoding, since it is simple.
Is there a thread I didn't see or what are the best programs ways to rip on Mac? I have a 4GB NAS I would like to put everything on for not only playing through TV but converting to different formats for different pieces of electronics and having complete original to work from
Thanks in advance
I have always used a PC for my ripping and video encoding, since it is simple.
Is there a thread I didn't see or what are the best programs ways to rip on Mac? I have a 4GB NAS I would like to put everything on for not only playing through TV but converting to different formats for different pieces of electronics and having complete original to work from
Thanks in advance
If you can get your head around the process described in this thread, then it's well worth doing.
Basically, Mac's have a thing called Automator, that (as the name would suggest) performs repetitive tasks automatically. The OP of this thread has created Automator "scripts" so all the hard work in ripping/encoding/naming DVDs is done for you.
Put a disc in.... Automator rips the disc.
When you've got a lot of ripped discs... Automator encodes, names and adds all the information and artwork.
The processes involve downloading specific software (free) and you can use this software on it's own (which is the answer to your question), but it's going to be a lot harder for you.
Handbrake seems to be everyone's software of choice for ripping DVDs on Mac. You can use this on it's own, or as part of the scripts discussed in this thread.
http://handbrake.fr/
Basically, Mac's have a thing called Automator, that (as the name would suggest) performs repetitive tasks automatically. The OP of this thread has created Automator "scripts" so all the hard work in ripping/encoding/naming DVDs is done for you.
Put a disc in.... Automator rips the disc.
When you've got a lot of ripped discs... Automator encodes, names and adds all the information and artwork.
The processes involve downloading specific software (free) and you can use this software on it's own (which is the answer to your question), but it's going to be a lot harder for you.
Handbrake seems to be everyone's software of choice for ripping DVDs on Mac. You can use this on it's own, or as part of the scripts discussed in this thread.
http://handbrake.fr/
Race,
I hope I can explain this right.
1st MKV is the ripped copy with everything included(video, audio, lang, subtitles etc)
Once you start to encode you will be left with at min 2 files(mkv) why?
The batch encoding process when it starts does several things(which is why you have to download the other programs(mkv, b2sp(can't remember the name exactly))
1. It takes and converts the subtitles, and audio required for the encoding process
2. It creates this temp mkv of all the correct info the way it needs to be to be properly encoded by HB
When it's done encoding you are left with the original mkv in the movie folder and the temp mkv it used to actually create the encoded movie.
The third is becuase I do beleive is that you have it selected to save mkv in the batch encode workflow. Open your Automator and the batch encode workflow and you will see an option to save/keep original mkv. I do beleive that is where you are getting the 3 mkv from.
The Automator workflow and contained scripts don't move the mkv that is made during the enconding process to the folder. I just delete them myself. I want the ripped version saved myself.
I hope i made some sense of the process..
Thanks for the explanation. I am getting two files now. The original rip, and when I'm done a mkv that goes into the encode folder with the m4v file.
So if I keep the original rip, there doesn't seem to be a reason to keep the mkv generated into the Batch Encode directory. It's just the muxed mkv, and can be regenerated fairly quickly from the original rip. If I understand correctly.
That is correct. Even if it tuook a while, his Batch system would take advatange of you still having it. You could pull it into HB yourself I suppose..
I'm keeping backups of rips on bare drives, but it would be a bit much space to keep the muxed versions too. Now if I could just get better frame rates on encoding HD I'd be happy.
Tell em about it. The first 800 of DVD's, took very little space, starting doing BD/HD's OMG sucks up my NAS which had 6TB. In process of orderign 4 3TB drives nw.
I am starting TV Shows now,trying to get his process to work..
I have a FW800 4 TB RAID 0+1, and another 4 TB RAID 0 that is the backup for the first. That's all for encoded video, plus iTunes music and Aperture libraries. I'm using extra bare drives in a 2.5/3.5 SATA dock to store my rips after I'm done encoding. When I run out of space on a drive I just get another cheap one. Right now I'm going through two 750 GB + 1 1TB drives I retired from DVRs. The USB2 dock I've been using is too painfully slow for copying rips, so I just ordered a Voyager Q dock w/FW800 from OWC. They have some open-box ones on special for $62.
Thanks so much for posting this how-to. I'm making great progress on my DVD collection using this process.
One issue I am having is auto-tagging certain items.
In many cases, it is obvious how to name a TV show DVD ("Seinfeld - S3D1"). In other cases, it is not obvious, at least to me. For example, how would I handle a one-off TV special ("A Charlie Brown Christmas")? Do I need to use a season and disc designation anyway ("A Charlie Brown Christmas - S1D1")? What about other episodes that may appear on the same DVD ("It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown"). Also, what about compilations that are not necessarily organized by season? I have a lot of DVDs for my son ("Curious George Takes a Job") that are collections of various episodes taken in random order from various seasons. Is there any way to get the auto-tagging feature to handle these?
Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.
One issue I am having is auto-tagging certain items.
In many cases, it is obvious how to name a TV show DVD ("Seinfeld - S3D1"). In other cases, it is not obvious, at least to me. For example, how would I handle a one-off TV special ("A Charlie Brown Christmas")? Do I need to use a season and disc designation anyway ("A Charlie Brown Christmas - S1D1")? What about other episodes that may appear on the same DVD ("It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown"). Also, what about compilations that are not necessarily organized by season? I have a lot of DVDs for my son ("Curious George Takes a Job") that are collections of various episodes taken in random order from various seasons. Is there any way to get the auto-tagging feature to handle these?
Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I'm about to face a similar issue. I am ripping Battlestar Galactica, but am not sure how to handle the tagging for the two-part miniseries that preceded season 1, as well as for Razor, the BSG movie that preceded Season 3 (or season 4, can't remember).
Both get the exact same tags. Just do one at a time. After each one is done I append the file name with the disk number.
I ended up with:
The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) D1.m4v
The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) D2.m4v
The alternative is to combine the two movie files into one. There is a tutorial for doing that, but I haven't bothered.
I figured out the BSG stuff. The pilot miniseries, Razor, and The Plan should be tagged as movies.
If I'm having problems with the naming of any discs, I use "Subler" - it can search for the information (but probably won't find any of these) but you can copy and paste the info in yourself. An horrendous task if you're doing loads, but for a handful of films it's worth it.
I just search for any info online IMDB etc and paste it into Subler, save the file and send it to iTunes.
I just search for any info online IMDB etc and paste it into Subler, save the file and send it to iTunes.
Have some trouble trying to correct/add chapter titles using subler. I find in it tagchimp search but the chapter names dont change or are not added. Any help?
Thanks for these, very helpful
Can't believe I've been doing this on and off by hand since the original apple TV came out
I have one question though, I don't like the way TV shows are named
I use /TV Shows/Show Name/Season 1/01 Episode Title.m4v
To achieve this am I correct in assuming I should edit ~/Library/Automator/Add TV Tags.action/Contents/Resources/main.command
doing something like this, get addiTunesTagsTV to return
and then add "mv $theFile $returnedValue" after (obviously need to make sure the folders exist first)
Although obviously I need to create a function to clean up the show and episode names so that they don't contain characters that aren't valid
Also, is there any reason I can't add files tagged with the automator scripts to metax? They both just use atomicparsley don't they? Reason is I want to change the artwork and make some minor tweaks
Can't believe I've been doing this on and off by hand since the original apple TV came out
I have one question though, I don't like the way TV shows are named
I use /TV Shows/Show Name/Season 1/01 Episode Title.m4v
To achieve this am I correct in assuming I should edit ~/Library/Automator/Add TV Tags.action/Contents/Resources/main.command
doing something like this, get addiTunesTagsTV to return
Code:
"${showName}/Season ${seasonNum}/${episodeNum} ${episodeName}.${file_extension}"and then add "mv $theFile $returnedValue" after (obviously need to make sure the folders exist first)
Code:
# delete script temp files
if [ -e "$sourceTmpFolder" ]; then
rm -rf $sourceTmpFolder
fiAlthough obviously I need to create a function to clean up the show and episode names so that they don't contain characters that aren't valid
Also, is there any reason I can't add files tagged with the automator scripts to metax? They both just use atomicparsley don't they? Reason is I want to change the artwork and make some minor tweaks
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TV Shows and Automation
I have been using this automation scripts and did my whole DVD/BD collection into iTunes, and wow it is awesome. So worth the time to set it up and run dvd's through and with Hazel makes it so easy to manage.
However time to do the many TV Shows I have. Reading and re-reading maj commments, still not quite sure how to get the TV Shows done correctly. Has anyone done TV shows usign his scripts? le tme explain what I have seen so far:
I am attempting to do The Office Season 1
Automation rips like 10 shows off DVD, when there is only 6 episodes to begin with. I assume it's becuase of comataries etc.
Trying to Use Batch Rip: Rename TV Shows to get them to line up for tagging
Input goes: The Office S1D1-1.mkv, S1D1-2.mkv etc the -1, -2 being the episode number ripped from the DVD. However when I run the Rename TV it takes the -1 away and renames to The Office S01E01.mkv
Won't that cause some isues? I mean like when I try to do say season 2, there is what 4 Disc. how does it keep them straight? I had ripped all of season two and ran rename TV shows and it ended up overwriting S2D1-1 and S2D2-1. Where does the diosc number come into play?
I know I am kinda all over in the questions, but I am tryign to get a grasp on it.
Anyone use these scripts to do their TV Shows?
I have been using this automation scripts and did my whole DVD/BD collection into iTunes, and wow it is awesome. So worth the time to set it up and run dvd's through and with Hazel makes it so easy to manage.
However time to do the many TV Shows I have. Reading and re-reading maj commments, still not quite sure how to get the TV Shows done correctly. Has anyone done TV shows usign his scripts? le tme explain what I have seen so far:
I am attempting to do The Office Season 1
Automation rips like 10 shows off DVD, when there is only 6 episodes to begin with. I assume it's becuase of comataries etc.
Trying to Use Batch Rip: Rename TV Shows to get them to line up for tagging
Input goes: The Office S1D1-1.mkv, S1D1-2.mkv etc the -1, -2 being the episode number ripped from the DVD. However when I run the Rename TV it takes the -1 away and renames to The Office S01E01.mkv
Won't that cause some isues? I mean like when I try to do say season 2, there is what 4 Disc. how does it keep them straight? I had ripped all of season two and ran rename TV shows and it ended up overwriting S2D1-1 and S2D2-1. Where does the diosc number come into play?
I know I am kinda all over in the questions, but I am tryign to get a grasp on it.
Anyone use these scripts to do their TV Shows?
I've only just started, but it works well. The most annoying thing is figuring out which episode is which. On DVDs they are usually in order. On bluray, I tend to rip manually with MakeMKV and they are often out of order. I've been using an iphone app called IntoNow, which is like shazam for TV shows to tell which episode is which.
As for the naming, it all works out. Each episode is named sequentially within each season. Disc one episodes come before disc two, etc. It knows to start over at E01 with season 2. The important thing is to check each file before encoding and delete any extras or other files that aren't actual episodes. THe -1, -2, etc numbers don't have to start at 1, but they do need to be in the correct order for it to work.
Hi, i'm trying the MKV to M4V batch service, but it doesn't seem to work with .srt subtitles, can anybody help me?
I am sorry, but I dont see it doing this.
Season 2 of The Office:
S2D1-1
S2D1-2
Etc
S2D2-1
S2D2-2
etc
Run Batch Encode: Rename TV Show and Tag
Opens window asking how to rename
I end up with
S02E01
S02E02
Only. All other gone. It appear to overwrite the S2D1-1 with S2D2-1??
It's liek it doesn't truly care which disc the episode is from.
That's correct, for example...
S2D1-1
S2D1-2
S2D2-1
S2D2-2
will end up as
S02E01
S02E02
S02E03
S02E04
etc.
And then the tags will be applied in episode order. The tags have nothing to do with (don't care about) what disk the episode came from, because that has nothing to do with how it was televised to begin with.
When you watch TV, do you say, "Oh, good, tonight they're showing Disk 2 Episode 4)"? No, but you might say, "they are showing episode 9" (which happens to be the 4th episode from disk 2 of the DVD or BRD). The disk number just doesn't matter in the end.