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

Script Copying Original to Destination??

Hi all,

LOVE these scripts. Thanks to the OP :-D

I'm having a strange problem. Whenever I batch encode the mkv's from the blue-ray ripper, the encode script is copying the original 30-ish GB file from my Movie Rips folder on my external hard drive to my Batch Encode folder on my internal drive where I have the results being created. This is in addition to copying the 'real' encoded file over. It doesn't copy the original file over until after the Adding Chapter Names via TagChimp step.

Note that this doesn't occur when I use the scripts for DVDs, only Blue-Rays. See the attached screenshots for my settings. Anyone have any ideas? My custom 720p line is this:
Code: 
-e x264  -q 19.0 -a \$audioTrack,\$audioTrack -E ca_aac,copy:ac3 -B 256,256 -6 dpl2,auto -R Auto,Auto -D 0.0,0.0 -f mp4 -4 --width 1280 --maxHeight 720 --subtitle scan --subtitle-burn --subtitle-forced scan --native-language \$nativeLanguage -m -x cabac=0:ref=2:me=umh:b-pyramid=none:b-adapt=2:weightb=0:trellis=0:weightp=0:vbv-maxrate=9500:vbv-bufsize=9500
 

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Does anywhere know where the actually script files are stored? (the .sh files).
I see when I run the automator actions is runs scripts and on the encode scripts, there is a retire existing file option which defaults to no. I'd like to change that to yes so that once the batch encode is done it deletes the file it is encoding from.
Thanks!
 
mdpeterman said:
Does anywhere know where the actually script files are stored? (the .sh files).
I see when I run the automator actions is runs scripts and on the encode scripts, there is a retire existing file option which defaults to no. I'd like to change that to yes so that once the batch encode is done it deletes the file it is encoding from.
Thanks!
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They're in User/Library/Automator. From there, view package contents for Batch Encode.action. Then in there, Contents/Resources/batchEncode.sh
 
ADD TV TAGS Action

Hi All,

I know that this has been a hot topic a few weeks back, but I still have not managed to get the ADD TV TAGS action working. I keep on receiving the "Cover Art failed integrity test, No Artwork was added" error message. Has anyone manged to get it working yet? If so, can you describe for a complete noobie how you did it?

Thanks.
 
batch encode .ts files

Hi

im using this automator with great result for my own recorded DVD rips, but lately I record through a sat box receiver directly to harddisk. Files are saved as .ts (MPEG transport stream). When running the automater it says "no videos found". Is there a way to get this automator running for these files ? Handbrake GUI scans them just fine. Thanks for any help.

Wessel
 
figjam said:
Hi All,

I know that this has been a hot topic a few weeks back, but I still have not managed to get the ADD TV TAGS action working. I keep on receiving the "Cover Art failed integrity test, No Artwork was added" error message. Has anyone manged to get it working yet? If so, can you describe for a complete noobie how you did it?

Thanks.
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Take a look here
 
Anyone want to backup their movie library onto some hard drives I send them and then send the drives back to me? ;) :p :apple:
 
resonanttoe said:
Take a look here
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Thanks for the reply Resonanttoe, but I have edited the script as suggested, and still received the same error message. I also downloaded and installed the updated script a few post further down from the post you pointed me too....but again I receive the same error message.

Any Ideas?
 
Many thanks for getting this all together mac.jedi - it's been a big help.

I'm about to try and dive into the code to tweak it a bit for my preferences but I thought that I'd check if anyone else has done this first.

What I'm going to try and do is to get multiple audio tracks included in the encode dependent on the movie/tv show. For example, I've got quite a few films that aren't in my native language (English). Some of them are horribly dubbed while others are very well dubbed. I don't want to have to make a decision of what audio version I want each time, so I'm going to code in some multiple audio support. I imagine I'll do something along the lines of:

- Check themoviedb for the movie's language
- If the movie's language matches my native language, have one audio track of that language.
- If the movie's language differs from my native language, use the movie's language as the primary audio track(s) and then add the audio tracks for my native language.

This way I'll have the choice of what language I can watch the output in at the time I want to watch it, not encoding time.

So has anyone attempted this yet or has any advice to offer etc.?
 
with these scripts working with ATV's is there any real reason to jailbrake one?

Do people have them jailbroken who have posted in this thread?
 
New guy here. Have a question will the scripts work on backup copies of DVDs or do I have to use my originals?



Thanks.

JT
 
Batch Rip Dispatcher not picking up changes to Batch Rip

First off, thanks to everyone involved in putting this together. I finally started this project and started off in Windows, but, because of this guide, decided it was easier to do over the network from my MacBook Pro.

I made some changes to the Batch Rip workflow and then did the Save As.. like the guide says. When I run Batch Rip through the Application Menu -> Services - Batch Rip it runs the modified version. However, when the Batch Rip Dispatcher runs Batch Rip, it runs the one with all the default settings. :confused:

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on? I apologize if this is a dumb question. I don't have much experience with Automator or OS X services, but can dig around if needed.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
Dkrogh said:
with these scripts working with ATV's is there any real reason to jailbrake one?

Do people have them jailbroken who have posted in this thread?
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If you're using a computer running iTunes as the host server, it takes away the major benefits of JBing one. If you have a NAS, however, and want to take the computer out of the equation, you'll need to JB and install XBMC. That is, unless your NAS unit performs iTunes Share mimicking.
 
Content scrambling

Hi All,

Long time lurker, first time poster. Thanks to the OP for his/her fine work. I have been backing up my library for use with ATV for a few weeks now and just came across my first scrambled movie. I thought the Fairmount, VLC, Handbrake combo prevented this?
Is there any ninja method I can use to check my movies to ensure I don't sit down with a bowl of popcorn and realize 45 minutes in to a movie that it just doen't make sense?
What do you guys do to prevent CSS catastrophe?
 
^ I normally spot check the movies once they are done converting, open them up and check about 3-4 points in them.
 
Love the scripts, they work like a dream. Just a quick couple questions.

1. On the batch encode service that scans the rip folders, how does it know if the files are complete (not one being ripped currently). Does it read the colour coded folder?

2. Is there a way to simply delete the source files (the contents of the rip folder) after successful encode?
 
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figjam said:
Thanks for the reply Resonanttoe, but I have edited the script as suggested, and still received the same error message. I also downloaded and installed the updated script a few post further down from the post you pointed me too....but again I receive the same error message.

Any Ideas?
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I'm still having the same problems also. Is there a fix that i can't find in these forums which everyone knows about except figjam and I?

Thanks.
 
neuratic said:
I'm still having the same problems also. Is there a fix that i can't find in these forums which everyone knows about except figjam and I?

Thanks.
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I updated my post. You must have that curl -L option now as the site changed its hostname again. I didn't download those revised scripts, but did add the -L in about 6 places in my copy. Try adding the debugging steps from my post and see what the files generated in /tmp show. That'll make it clear what the specific problem is, like not finding season id, episode id, etc.

Even with good scripts, some shows can fail to load artwork.
 
HackerJL said:
Love the scripts, they work like a dream. Just a quick couple questions.

1. On the batch encode service that scans the rip folders, how does it know if the files are complete (not one being ripped currently). Does it read the colour coded folder?

2. Is there a way to simply delete the source files (the contents of the rip folder) after successful encode?
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Correct it reads the color label onthe folder to know if it's been done already.

If you are lookign to delete the sources files after encodeing, I would suggest a program called Hazel. The scripts themseleves will not delete the source files. However you can have Hazel look at the "Batch Encode Movies" folder and look for the folder color to turn "grey" which means it has been encoded. and the delete the folder. I have Hazel move my done encoded folders to a NAS for offlien storage in case i want to encode again. I have had a few cases where the scripting and in combo with HB it grabbed the wrogn track to encode. HB by default tries to use the longest track, which sometimes is not correct.
 
Selecting Video and Multiple Audio/Subtitle Tracks

I'm currently trying to customize this amazing workflow to suit my needs. I have a lot of films I'm trying to encode (many are foreign) and keep running into issues. Sometimes the scripts are not fool proof and either the wrong language gets selected or the subtitles get left off. Sometime even the wrong video source is selected. I'm also a big fan of directors commentary and would love to be able to retain those tracks.

I think there has to be a way to manually select the video, audio and subtitle streams to use during the initial MakeMKV stage, then let automator take over.

I would like my final result to be 2 movies, A 1080 HD .mkv and an iPad formatted .m4v, both with my selected audio and subtitle streams that can be enabled as desired.

I have been able to get this done manually but would love to get this automated workflow working. Is there a way to do this? Am I missing something? I'm fairly new to this and have very lite programming skills. If anyone can help me out It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
First of all, thanks a lot for the brilliant scripts!

However, since a few days, I have the following problem and hope that someone could help:

When using the Batch Encoder (Finder) process the English audio track won't be found anymore and no English subtitle will be added to the encoded file. The subtitle is quite important for me as I am hearing-impaired.

I already tried it with four different Blu-Rays and uninstalled/re-installed the scripts again...
 
dylan74 said:
When using the Batch Encoder (Finder) process the English audio track won't be found anymore and no English subtitle will be added to the encoded file. The subtitle is quite important for me as I am hearing-impaired.

I already tried it with four different Blu-Rays and uninstalled/re-installed the scripts again...
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I am having the same issue. The only thing I can think of since the last time I ran the scripts was I upgraded MakeMKV to 1.6.10.

I tried updating Handbrake last night, thinking that was the issue, but it had no effect.
 
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