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

dharvey1221 said:
I have loved this thread and have been using it since the beginning, thanks a million mac.jedi. I got side tracked on Blu-Ray rips with MKV and haven't used the automator since installing lion. I upgraded to latest batch rip. When I try to run the batch rip fair mount is getting stuck trying to locate VLC. Its there plan as day but no dice. Says it can't find the vlc libraries. I have deleted VLC, re-installed VLC 32 bit version and still can't get it to launch. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Did you download VLC 2? IIRC I had to rename the app bundle from vlc2.app to vlc.app for FairMount to find it...
 
Up to this point I've been using MDRP to rip and only using the batch encode script. I've been thinking about getting an external BD drive and starting to rip my BDs. What drive should I get to maximize rip speeds (I assume a REAL drive in an external closure rather than a USB bus powered drive?). Also, what settings are people encoding in. I see Handbrake has not yet released an AppleTV 3 setting.
 
imahawki said:
Up to this point I've been using MDRP to rip and only using the batch encode script. I've been thinking about getting an external BD drive and starting to rip my BDs. What drive should I get to maximize rip speeds (I assume a REAL drive in an external closure rather than a USB bus powered drive?). Also, what settings are people encoding in. I see Handbrake has not yet released an AppleTV 3 setting.
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I have an external Pioneer BD-R drive from OWC which works great. I checked recently and the interface is still a bit legacy with USB 2, FW 800 and eSata. Their docs state that USB 2 is fine for reading DVD/BR or burning DVD. Burning BDR requires the FW 800 or eSata port. I was hoping they'd have USB 3 by now.

Looks like people are just using high profile for ATV3.
 
mullet05 said:
So i've been ripping my movies with this setup for months and its been working great. All of the sudden I can't rip any of my blu rays. I am currently running OS X 10.7.4 and have the most recent versions of all the required software and automator actions.

The problem i'm having is I keep getting the error "error: could not find any tracks between 80-180 minutes (movie)" At first i thought it could have just been an issue with a specific blu ray. but i have now tried

Tron legacy
Avatar
Thor
Iron Man 2
Family Guy Its a trap
and cars.

all of these movies give me the same exact error...any ideas would be appreciated. I just updated to my 1080p appleTV and would really like the HD versions
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I'm having the same problem. Except, I had NOT been using the batch rip previously, I was using MDRP. But I'm thinking about getting BD drive and ripping my Blu-Rays which is not supported by MDRP. So I thought I'd test the batch rip function and put in a DVD and got the same error. Did you get any resolution to your problem?
 
Using the Automated Process with existing DVD Rips

I've currently got about 150 DVD rips using RIP-IT that I've used with Nito on an ATV 1+2 Flash. I know the automator looks for DVD's inserted to run the batch... however is there a way to change it to work on a volume share containing the RIP files, and then carry on with the batch rip/encode as I want to use the MKV files with PLEX?

Thanks
J
 
Where do you get Fairmount

Hi. I'm trying to give this a shot.. I can't find a download for fairmount - just dvd-remaster. Any ideas would be appreciated.

thanks!
 
Default Audio 2.0 vs 5.1

Hi all -

I've used this script to encode a lot of TV shows and movies. I have noticed that generally on playback (especially for TV shows), the stereo 2.0 channel audio is preferred over the multi-channel 5.1. The effect is that when I start a TV show on my AppleTV (1x 2nd gen, 1x 3rd gen), I have to hold down the center button and select the secondary audio, which is the multi-channel. Is there a way for this script to have the mulit-channel as default?

When I open the files in Subler, they appear in the correct order: video track, 2 channel audio, multi-channel audio. Generally speaking (although I've changed this and it doesn't seem to matter), I have the video and 2 channel checkboxes marked, but not the multi-channel.

Is there an easy way to both enable and auto-select the multi-channel audio?

I've searched through this thread, but can't find an appropriate answer. thanks in advance.
 
imahawki said:
I'm having the same problem. Except, I had NOT been using the batch rip previously, I was using MDRP. But I'm thinking about getting BD drive and ripping my Blu-Rays which is not supported by MDRP. So I thought I'd test the batch rip function and put in a DVD and got the same error. Did you get any resolution to your problem?
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I did figure it out finally. Turns out the blu-ray portion of MakeMKV is only shareware and the trial period for it had expired. I purchased the full version of MakeMKV and it started working again.
 
mullet05 said:
I did figure it out finally. Turns out the blu-ray portion of MakeMKV is only shareware and the trial period for it had expired. I purchased the full version of MakeMKV and it started working again.
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EDIT: I was having the problem with DVDs. The issue was I had the wrong version of VLC so Fairmount was bombing out.
 
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Does this workflow support copying the high resolution tracks (DD TrueHD and DTS Master Audio) or does the ATV not even support said tracks, making an attempt to capture them moot?
 
mullet05 said:
I did figure it out finally. Turns out the blu-ray portion of MakeMKV is only shareware and the trial period for it had expired. I purchased the full version of MakeMKV and it started working again.
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That's cool that you bought MakeMKV, but you didn't need to. The developers post updated beta registration keys monthly (at least they have for quite sometime). That said, I'm sure the support is appreciated.
 
New handbrakeCli Apple TV 3 preset

There is a new nightly version of handbrakeCli with Apple tv 3 presets, how do I import this into the batch rip action for Automator programme?

Thanks
 
I was wondering if someone could help me - I have recently backed up my Mac (via Time Machine) and run a clean install of Lion.

I have copied the Batch Rip Actions application from the Time Machine backup, but it hasn't carried over my settings for the script.

How can I retrieve this? Thanks!
 
Hello,

Could someone help guide me in what I'm doing wrong. I ripped and encoded a bunch of my dvds awhile ago following the instructions in this thread and everything worked great. Then due to time I had to take a break, since then I have upgraded computers so was starting fresh.

Ripping the dvds works fine, but when I batch encode them it completes fine, but playing them back shows the video playing at about 3x speed, while the sound is normal. I looked at the presets but nothing stood out to me as being wrong. I am using the ATV2 preset.

any ideas? Thanks
 
Hi,

I was looking to get some help on this topic. Picked up this old thread and its working really well to catalogue my old DVD library. This works really well in the Mac world but was wondering now that I've created a Media share on my Server I want to access these via 2 PC's in the house also. However, any ripped and encoded files from the original process on this article will not work over iTunes on Window 7. Files that have been downloaded directly from the iTunes Store stream just fine to my PC's but not the ripped files.

Can anyone offer me some tips or advice how I can overcome this?

Thanks in advance,

Mark
 
Since the preset is a set of CLI commands. Just insert this into the custom1 or 2, or whatever:

Code: 
-e x264  -q 20.0 -r 30 --pfr  -a 1,1 -E faac,copy:ac3 -B 160,160 -6 dpl2,auto -R Auto,Auto -D 0.0,0.0 -f mp4 -4 -X 1920 --decomb="7:2:6:9:1:80" --loose-anamorphic --modulus 2 -m -x b-adapt=2

If you wonder where I get that from, its simply:

./HandBrakeCLI --preset-list
 
Mountain Lion

The batchEncode script is throwing a sed error with Mountain Lion. It still seems to work though. Just a heads up MacJedi.

*Extracting PGS Subtitle Tracks from temp file…
Progress: 100%
Converting PGS subtitle tracks to VOBSUB…

*Muxing Main Video, Audio (A_AC3-eng) and Subtitle Tracks from temp files
Progress: 100%

sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ ||": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ ||": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ ||": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ ||": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid

BS
 
brandon95030 said:
The batchEncode script is throwing a sed error with Mountain Lion. It still seems to work though. Just a heads up MacJedi.

*Extracting PGS Subtitle Tracks from temp file…
Progress: 100%
Converting PGS subtitle tracks to VOBSUB…

*Muxing Main Video, Audio (A_AC3-eng) and Subtitle Tracks from temp files
Progress: 100%

sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ ||": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ ||": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ ||": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid
sed: 1: "s|^.*\+ ||": RE error: repetition-operator operand invalid

BS
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I noticed this as well, but it works. I dont know if mac.jedi exists anymore :(
 
Adding tv tags corrupting files.

Has anybody had the problem when after adding the tv tags the file becomes unplayable, and unrecognizable. It does not do it on every file and it is random.
 
Use on ISO files?

I already ripped many of my DVD to full complete ISO file. Is it possible to use this encoding batch with those file, just to convert them to a single (or multiple if it's a TV show) file?

Using "Handbrake" manually to convert more than 50 DVD is a real pain...!
 
mac.jedi said:
Hey HackerJL! I'm still around, but I've been busy with work and other projects. I'm hoping to provide some updates in next month or so :)
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You have no idea how happy I am to hear this. Also, where is that donate button I talked about? I need to donate to the cause. :))))

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msamamc said:
Has anybody had the problem when after adding the tv tags the file becomes unplayable, and unrecognizable. It does not do it on every file and it is random.
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No, never actually. I do about 10-12 shows a week.

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Myrandor said:
I already ripped many of my DVD to full complete ISO file. Is it possible to use this encoding batch with those file, just to convert them to a single (or multiple if it's a TV show) file?

Using "Handbrake" manually to convert more than 50 DVD is a real pain...!
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Since the ISO has to be mounted before it can do anything inside it, I dont know of a way to do anything with it automatically. I personally dont do much with optical discs, so I dont know if the automation scripts would see it as an optical drive (I dont think so) when it gets mounted. Let me try tonight and I will let you know...
 
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