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

Just wanted to drop in and give my thanks to mac.jedi for the automations. I'm a new Apple TV owner, xmas present, and since I've gotten the hang of the automations I've been ripping and encoding fiendishly. Without these I probably would never have bothered except for a few here and there. Now I'm about 1/2 way to putting my whole DVD collection onto disc and my Apple TV.

THANKS :D
 
Frosticus said:
Fairmount rips the .VOB files on the DVD (i.e. decrypts and copies them to your hard drive). They then have to be encoded into a video file which can be played back. There are 1-step tools that do this, however in my experience, they are either expensive or don't do the job very well. To my knowledge, Fairmount does not do this.

Personally, I use MakeMKV or RipIt to rip, and Handbrake (what else!) to encode.

The Automator scripts MacJedi has written make the job a lot easier though.
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Thanks Frosticus!

Quick Tip!

In Batch Encode, if you uncheck Ignore Optical, it will encode straight from any DVD or Blu-ray that's mounted.
 
I picked up an Xbox HD DVD drive yesterday to rip my collection of HD DVDs. I've already ripped 6 or so, but I've had to use the MakeMKV GUI because Batch Rip Encoder doesn't seem to recognize the disc as a movie disc. When I insert the disc, Batch Rip Automator doesn't auto-detect it, and if I invoke the Batch Rip service from the context menu in Finder, I never get prompted to enter the title of the movie. Is there any way to get Batch Rip Automator to recognize HD DVDs?
 
mac.jedi said:
Thanks Frosticus!

Quick Tip!

In Batch Encode, if you uncheck Ignore Optical, it will encode straight from any DVD or Blu-ray that's mounted.
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Could you elaborate? Are you saying that Batch Rip Automator can automatically kick off the encode process after a disc has been ripped?
 
TV Show

Her is one for ya. I am trying to get my head wrapped around how to Ripp/Encode Gillagan's Island TV Show.

Here is the Problem. The DVD set has the episodes on side A and B of each DVD. So how would i ripp them and then encode so they can be tagged and encoded correctly? Right now i am ripping that as GI-S1D1-A and GI-S1D1-B. but that's not going to allow Batch Encode to do **** with it..

Anyone have an idea or clue how to do this?
 
gunthermic said:
Her is one for ya. I am trying to get my head wrapped around how to Ripp/Encode Gillagan's Island TV Show.

Here is the Problem. The DVD set has the episodes on side A and B of each DVD. So how would i ripp them and then encode so they can be tagged and encoded correctly? Right now i am ripping that as GI-S1D1-A and GI-S1D1-B. but that's not going to allow Batch Encode to do **** with it..

Anyone have an idea or clue how to do this?
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gunthermic!

The disc number (D#) is only used to keep the files in order. I'd just name each side in order as if they were a new disc … D1, D2, D3, D4.
 
paulisme said:
Could you elaborate? Are you saying that Batch Rip Automator can automatically kick off the encode process after a disc has been ripped?
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Hi paulisme!

I was responding to the post about the 2 step process of ripping/decrypting; then encoding.

I was pointing out that the Batch Encode Service has the ability to encode straight from the optical drive in 1 step … rather than using the Batch Rip Service, then the Batch Encode Service.

Though you can do it in one step, the two step process is recommended so you can do them in batches … Rip a bunch of discs during the day, then encode them all at night.

In regards to automatically encoding after a disc has been ripped, it is possible, but it requires a trigger script. I recommend Hazel for this, but Folder Actions would work as well.
 
paulisme said:
I picked up an Xbox HD DVD drive yesterday to rip my collection of HD DVDs. I've already ripped 6 or so, but I've had to use the MakeMKV GUI because Batch Rip Encoder doesn't seem to recognize the disc as a movie disc. When I insert the disc, Batch Rip Automator doesn't auto-detect it, and if I invoke the Batch Rip service from the context menu in Finder, I never get prompted to enter the title of the movie. Is there any way to get Batch Rip Automator to recognize HD DVDs?
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Sorry, Batch Rip Actions for Automator doesn't support HD-DVD. Using the MakeMKV GUI is the recommended way to rip HD-DVD. You can then use Batch Encode to encode the mkv files.
 
paulisme said:
I picked up an Xbox HD DVD drive yesterday to rip my collection of HD DVDs. I've already ripped 6 or so, but I've had to use the MakeMKV GUI because Batch Rip Encoder doesn't seem to recognize the disc as a movie disc. When I insert the disc, Batch Rip Automator doesn't auto-detect it, and if I invoke the Batch Rip service from the context menu in Finder, I never get prompted to enter the title of the movie. Is there any way to get Batch Rip Automator to recognize HD DVDs?
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Was the HD-DVD drive plug and play, like BluRay drives are? I tried to find something via google about hd-dvd and 10.7 but only found links/forum posts from 2009 and older.
 
chidlebaugh said:
Was the HD-DVD drive plug and play, like BluRay drives are? I tried to find something via google about hd-dvd and 10.7 but only found links/forum posts from 2009 and older.
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Yep. I just plugged it in and it worked just like any other drive. Out of my 20 or so HD DVDs, I only had 1 that wouldn't rip using MakeMKV (which was U2: Rattle and Hum).
 
Mac.Jedi,

Quick question. If I wanted to change the Contant Quality that you use for Ripping movies from 20 to 18 how would I go about doing that? Is it as simple as just editing your BatchEncodeTmp.sh file? Also can you think of a good way to automate it so its uses 20 for SD dvds but ifs its an BluRay Rip to make it 18?

Thanks!

Your Padawan (yeah, the geek kinda of got out on that one...) chidlebaugh
 
Info and Error Massage

Mac.jedi,

I have a question and I need to report an error that appears at the end of BatchRip.sh

Although the process is completed, the error appears every time I use batchrip. I am using 1.09 (built 262). By default Growl is not enabled but I did.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
PROCESSING COMPLETE
/Applications/Batch Rip Actions for Automator.app/Contents/Library/Automator/Batch Rip.action/Contents/Resources/batchRip.sh: line 409: /tmp/batchRip_935/growlMessageRIP.txt: No such file or directory
End: Sat Jan 21 17:41:47 EST 2012
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

logout

[Process completed]


Have you tried VLC 2.0 (RC1) which soon will be released??

Thanks,

MS
 
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Add TV Tags does not appear to do anything

I've been a long-time user of these great tools through several versions. When I upgraded my OS to Lion on release day, I had problems using the workflows, as there seemed to be an issue with Lion running workflows that were not built in Lion. I worked around this by editing each workflow, undo-ing the edit and then saving changes.

This was working fine, with the exception of the Batch Rip and Batch Encode workflows, which I had to run from within Automator to get them to work. However, the workflows I mainly used - Add TV Tags - were working fine from the right-click menu in Finder...until a few days ago.

Now, when I try and Add TV Tags, there's no spinning cog at the top of the screen to let me know something's happening and the TV file does not get updated with the tags and DVD cover.

I've download the new v1.0.9 installer and re-installed the services, but still have the same issue. I've examined the addTvTags.log, but can't see anything obviously wrong.

Any suggestions?
 
RE: Add TV Tags does not appear to do anything

After a bit more digging, it appears the ~/Library/Logs/BatchRipActions/addTvTags.log is only being updated when I run the workflow in Automator.

When I try to run it in Finder, the following message appears in the system log:

09/02/2012 13:47:28.596 com.apple.automator.xpc.workflowServiceRunner 2012-02-09 13:47:28.591 WorkflowServiceRunner[5856:170b] The action “Add TV Tags” could not be loaded because the application “Batch Rip Actions for Automator” was not found.

This is strange because that app is definitely installed in /Applications/
 
Quick question.... how does the batch rip handle the older DVDs that have multiple sides... Side A & Side B ? Gettysburgh, Ben Hur...etc ?

Are they separate movies and if so can they be merged onto a single movie file ?
 
habu281 said:
Are they separate movies and if so can they be merged onto a single movie file ?
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I imagine those will come out as separate movies. I had this with the TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett's The Colour Of Magic. On TV it was done as two separate shows & the disk reflected this, so two separate files where produced. But on TheMovieDB it's listed as a single movie so I had to merge the files myself. It's quite easy to do and if you've got all the dependencies installed for Mac.Jedi's workflows, you should already have all you need - MKVToolNix which gives you MKVMerge. Load that application up and from there you can add your files to combine into one MKV file. Then tag the final output using the tag tv action.
 
Leesy said:
I imagine those will come out as separate movies. I had this with the TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett's The Colour Of Magic. On TV it was done as two separate shows & the disk reflected this, so two separate files where produced. But on TheMovieDB it's listed as a single movie so I had to merge the files myself. It's quite easy to do and if you've got all the dependencies installed for Mac.Jedi's workflows, you should already have all you need - MKVToolNix which gives you MKVMerge. Load that application up and from there you can add your files to combine into one MKV file. Then tag the final output using the tag tv action.
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Great Thank you ! I do have all of the dependencies loaded, but haven't gotten much deeper than the basic rip and encode and haven't needed to until now.
 
Erro in Lion No Vides Found

Hi Guys,

I've been using this great automator for a long time on Snow Leopard.

Recently I installed it for a friend on a new iMac on Lion. I got the error No videos found on simple home dvd recorded dvd's ripped to harddisk. I am sure this has to do with permissions in Lion, also the Batch encode workflow needs to be "unlocked" before edits are allowed. I found an older suggestion to set up a new user account and I got it working.

For the last two days I am trying the same for another friend on a new MBPro.
I did all I can think of but it refuses to take dvd ripped to the internal HD. It does take the dvd itself in the optical drive, but whats the use of batch ripping when you have to do dvd's one-by-one :).

What am I doing wrong that I get this error.

Wessel
 
Season X Episode

My TV Shows are in the form

Show - 1x01

Does anyone know of an alteration to the automator script for tagging TV shows, or a automator script to convert the the one that the automator wants

Show - S01E01

thank you
 
kcossabo said:
My TV Shows are in the form

Show - 1x01

Does anyone know of an alteration to the automator script for tagging TV shows, or a automator script to convert the the one that the automator wants

Show - S01E01

thank you
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I use this script to rename my Lost episodes.
Hope this help

MS
 

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kcossabo said:
Thank You. So manual on the Season, then it changes the episodes, but must have all of them, and start at 1?

Correct?
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Your episodes must be already in order. This scrip allows you to rename your files sequentially only, it does not order them.

Since this allow your to select the files to rename, try with a couple of them before a full run.

You build and lunch the script. Make sure that you change the "new name" to a more appropriate file name (i.e Show - S01E) my was for Lost.
Navigate to the location of your files, select all all of them.

MS
 
Custom Presets

Hi, I'm new to this site and Mac. I'm trying to set this program up on my imac, but it's not to use with an Apple product. I'm using with Plex. I have my presets that I want to use in handbrake but it doesn't give me that choice in batch encode - "select an encode target, then choose a preset". I see that I can do a custom insert handbrake cli argument to create a custom preset. I have gone on the handbrakecli wiki as the instructions say to but I'm still lost in trying to figure it out.

If anyone could help me I'd really appreciate it, been googling and reading through comments for a few hours now. Handbrake and HandbrakeCLI are in my applications folder and the preset I want to use is titled Blu-Ray. Thanks!
 
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