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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!

Yea you can't use any other presets within this app. They are actually programed into this. In order to use your own, in Handbrake you can tell it to display your cmd line args. Copy and paste those in the custom..
 
Yea you can't use any other presets within this app. They are actually programed into this. In order to use your own, in Handbrake you can tell it to display your cmd line args. Copy and paste those in the custom..

Thank you for your response. Is there any way you can point me in the right direction as far as how to tell handbrake to display the command line arguments?
 
I want to add my voice to thank mac.jedi for an invaluable tool.

I am a new convert to Mac and I am now ripping all my DVDs to the hard drive, which would have been unthinkably more difficult without this.

One question that I have for mac.jedi or anyone else: I have just purchased a G-Raid 6TB external drive with is connected directly to my Mac mini by FireWire. How do I move my Movie folder, which contains the Batch Encode, Batch Rip Movies, and Batch Rip TV folders, to the G-Raid and ensure that future rips are directed there?

Thanks again for the help!
 
How do I move my Movie folder, which contains the Batch Encode, Batch Rip Movies, and Batch Rip TV folders, to the G-Raid and ensure that future rips are directed there?

If you have the latest version of the scripts installed it's very easy. You just open the Batch Rip Actions application, choose batch rip or batch encode on the left hand side & then each area has an output section where you can specify a directory. Take the below screenshot taken from Mac.Jedi's first post:

editWorkflow.jpg


On there you'll see a section called "Output" with the "Batch Encode Directory" set to "Batch Encode". You just need to click that dropdown, change it to other and choose the appropriate folder. Same thing for batch rip accept you have to choose a folder for TV & a folder for movies in this case.
 
Thank you for your response. Is there any way you can point me in the right direction as far as how to tell handbrake to display the command line arguments?


I''ve got the same problem. I can't find an option in the UI Version where I can put out the command line arguments.

But I'm really thankful for your awesome work. This Batch Rip Actions are absolutely stunning! Keep up the good work!
 
does anyone possibly have any guidance on how to get the command line arguments from the presets in handbrake? thanks!
 
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I found a forum post on it at the HandBrake forum:

https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=20219&p=93405&hilit=export+preset+for+CLI#p93405

It sounds like the best option is downloading the Handbrake source and using a script in there to turn your exported preferences into the command line options you want. If this is sounding like a bit much for you, export the preferences you are interested in and post them on here and I'll give it a shot for you.

Thank you for your help. I tried reading through the thread but i'm in way over my head. I'm going to sound like a real idiot but, how do I "export preferences"?
 
If you have the latest version of the scripts installed it's very easy. You just open the Batch Rip Actions application, choose batch rip or batch encode on the left hand side & then each area has an output section where you can specify a directory. Take the below screenshot taken from Mac.Jedi's first post:

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On there you'll see a section called "Output" with the "Batch Encode Directory" set to "Batch Encode". You just need to click that dropdown, change it to other and choose the appropriate folder. Same thing for batch rip accept you have to choose a folder for TV & a folder for movies in this case.

Thanks Leesy!
 
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



Hi guys,

anybody can help with this.... I'm about to throw the MBP out of the window
from frustration....


ERROR: No videos found
Check input search directories ($movieSearchDir, $tvSearchDir)
logout


Wessel
 
I'm going to sound like a real idiot but, how do I "export preferences"?

You can export your presets as a plist file. I can't remember quite how to do it and I'm not on a Mac at the moment but I can't check but I think it was quite an easy option to find. If there's a "Preset" option available from the menu bar, check in there for an export option
 
Can't get it to work.

Firstly: This is an awesome idea and I really appreciate all the effort put into the application/workflows.

But... I can't get it to work. Here's what I did:
  • Install the App in /Applications
  • Run the app, install the service
  • Verify the dispatcher service is on, set Finder to 'Ignore' inserted DVDs
  • Install handbrakeCLI, Fairmount and Old version of VLC (1.1.11) that it likes (already have MakeMKV and Handbrake)
When I insert a DVD (either encrypted or unencrypted) nothing happens. Fairmount is working for encrypted DVD's.

If I right click on a DVD and select >Services >BatchRip • BatchRip (Finder), nothing happens. Same if I select the service from the "Services" menu in the finder.

I'm running 10.7.3 on a 2011 MBP.

All I'm really looking to do is to Rip (to MKV preferably) my Futurama DVD collection and have the Filenames automatically set to "Futurama Sxx Exx" so Plex can do its thing with them.

TIA for any help/insight you can provide.
 
OK... had a DVD in the drive... quit Fairmount, the DVD remounted and ripped itself -- with no interaction from me. No "Do you want to do this?", no nothing.

Spewed a few errors in the terminal window it opened. (see here http://pastebin.com/pbxVPHx8)

Files were named:
Futurama, Volume 1 - Disc 3 (1999)-0.mkv
Futurama, Volume 1 - Disc 3 (1999)-1.mkv
Futurama, Volume 1 - Disc 3 (1999)-2.mkv
Futurama, Volume 1 - Disc 3 (1999)-3.mkv

No idea...
 
It's not dead but there is only one guy (Mac.Jedi) doing all the code in his spare time, so don't be surprised if you don't get an answer for a few days.

As for your problem, the first thing that jumps out at the me are the following lines in the console log you linked to in your post:

WARNING: Fairmount.app is currently listed as QUARANTINED because it's an application downloaded from the Internet. You must LAUNCH and AUTHORIZE Fairmount.app FIRST, before running this action. Will continue, but Action may fail if the OS prevents the app from launching.

WARNING: MakeMKV.app is currently listed as QUARANTINED because it's an application downloaded from the Internet. You must LAUNCH and AUTHORIZE MakeMKV.app FIRST, before running this action. Will continue, but Action may fail if the OS prevents the app from launching.

First thing I'd do is fix that and then try again. I have no idea what all this "Adobe Unit Types" malarkey is and I've never had that problem. Do you only see that when running the batch rip/encode scripts? Do you see that in the Terminal for any other applications? Finally, you've set it to Growl on complete but you don't have GrowlNotify installed (get it from here).

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Bump, any suggestions?

At the moment, I don't think so. I believe Mac.Jedi has been considering adding extra options for providing input for the encode (e.g. alternative ripping sources to FairMount) but I got that info from earlier in this thread so no idea what is happening with that.
 
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At the moment, I don't think so. I believe Mac.Jedi has been considering adding extra options for providing input for the encode (e.g. alternative ripping sources to FairMount) but I got that info from earlier in this thread so no idea what is happening with that.

Thanks for confirmation, I unfortunately made the decision early on in my ripping days to not encode anything, just strip it to single VOBs. Changed my ways now, but have a large number of VOBs left over than I'm not looking forward to manually encoding :(
 
Changed my ways now, but have a large number of VOBs left over than I'm not looking forward to manually encoding :(

It's not that bad to do the encoding manually via Handbrake. With the presets you can build up a queue for processing overnight quite easily. Then you have the items in Mac.Jedi's workflows to do things like tagging that helps a lot. I tend to do a chunk my encoding by hand as I was having a few troubles with Fairmount rejecting DVD's that something else like RipIt could handle fine. It could be worse :)
 
problem with Add TV Tags (Search)

Great scripts. Thanks for all the hard work.

I'm having problem with one of the workflows in the 1.0.9 release:

Batch Rip * Add TV Tags (Search).workflow
I enter "Dexter" for show name. Then "S05E01". It appears that the season and episode is not parsed correctly and artwork for season 1 comes in instead.

Batch Rip * Add TV Tags (Filename).workflow is working perfectly fine. My file name is "Dexter - S05E01.m4v

Both of the above workflows use same "Add TV Tags.action" so I'm guessing the prompt for season and episode is the problem.

Thank you!
 
Question on DVD TV-series naming convention

What's the convention when you have a TV series that has 2 sides per disc? S1D1-A or something else? I have a few series like this.

Also, I have not been able to get the Rename TV Items script to work. All it does is rename the folder. Because of these issues, I am unable to use these scripts past the ripping stage.

Thank you for doing this, I am sure this will be a great time saver when I get this figured out.

Thanks,
Scott
 
What's the convention when you have a TV series that has 2 sides per disc? S1D1-A or something else? I have a few series like this.
I'd personally treat each side as a separate disc. No idea what the convention is though.

Also, I have not been able to get the Rename TV Items script to work. All it does is rename the folder. Because of these issues, I am unable to use these scripts past the ripping stage.
Are you selecting the folder or the files itself? You have to select the files you want to update and then use the rename action. The folder shouldn't be involved.

So far example, say I have three files:
- TV Show Ep 1
- TV Show Ep 2
- TV Show Ep 3

I'd select those three, right click and choose Services > Rename & Tag TV Items (or whatever the exact name is). It'll prompt you for the first item in the order, so TV Show EP 1, and from there it'll rename the files.
 
Thanks for the reply.

I've just been naming the discs S#D#-A and S#D#-B. It works, although I don't think I'll be able to pull metadata from thetvdb because of it, though.

As far as renaming, I was indeed using the folder. However, I'm a little confused about renaming the files, because aren't the shows split into ~1GB chunks? How will the script handle that?

Thanks again.

Scott
 
As far as renaming, I was indeed using the folder. However, I'm a little confused about renaming the files, because aren't the shows split into ~1GB chunks? How will the script handle that?

I've not ripped any Blu-Rays so I'm going on mainly DVD ripping knowledge here but we'll see if it helps. And I'm guessing you're doing Blu Ray if the discs are double sided & giving you 1GB episodes :)

Each chunk/file the rip process produces should relate to an episode of a TV show. So if your disk contained 4 episodes, you should have 4 files. This unfortunately isn't always the case (some DVDs will give you one massive file containing all the episodes combined for example).

From the disc you placed in the drive, you'll know what episodes these files should related to. They'll be named sequentially in the order they came off the disc so that you can be quite sure that the first file it produce is the first episode on the disc, the second is the second episode and so on.

You then select your episodes in that sequential order and use the rename & tag tv items action. That'll ask you for the first episode number for the files you've selected. So if I've just done say Futurama, Season 1, Disc 2 then I'd know the 4 files I produced were episodes 5-8 of Season 1. So into the season/episode prompt I'd enter S01E05. It then simply increments the episode number as it goes through the list of files to rename.

Does that make sense/help?
 
Help?

I'm a big ol' noob and I think this thread is where the answers to my project are, but I'm having trouble sorting through the information here. What you guys is a lot more complex than what I need to do but I thought I'd ask for help.

I use Plex Media Server on my Hackintosh to serve up files to my Roku. Lately many of my TV Show files have been in mp4 format and their ReFrames are set too high for the Roku to play. I get audio without video if the ReFrame is set to anything over 5.

What I'd like to do is to use Hazel and HandBrakeCLI to automatically re-encode all mp4 files from my New TV Shows folder back into the same folder but with a ReFrame of 3, which plays fine on the Roku. If going back into the same folder is an issue I can work around that, but can anyone help me with the right solution to do this?

Thanks!
 
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