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Are there any automatic or semiautomatic tools that will rip a set of DVDs from a tv show, and label the resulting vids (like Show name - s##e## or similar)?

I want to digitize entire series (of DVDs I own) for an in-home streaming server, and it's super annoying to name each file individually.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Have you checked online that someone hasn't already done it for you? I only rip as a last resort these days; much quicker to download.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I use handbrake makemkv to rip/convert.

I use filebot to name in bulk. Be careful though, filebot only works if your files are organized correctly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That looks awesome!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Automatically ripping movies is pretty easy, but TV shows often need manual work to get them right.

Sometimes you'll get individual videos with the correct chapters, runtimes and they are listed in order, but other times they will be jumbled in random order, or will be one large video that needs to be split manually into episodes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bonus if the VOB is encoded out of order and uses the chapters specified in the IFO to play the episodes in the correct order. CW/WB shows did that a lot for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I've seen some like that. just bonkers stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I ended up writing a Python script that pulls data using tmdb's api.

The files still need to be checked though. Dvd authoring is always a crapshoot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I've ever ripped a DVD, but I'm pretty sure Handbrake still does that and that has automatic naming for output: https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/technical/automatic-file-naming.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This seems to only be for each disk and is not aware of other disks. So far, it seems that I'll have to manually rename them to match a convention. I did forget about handbrake, though. It's a good reminder. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Handbrake, VLC, Makemkv, DVDFab, Winx... these tools are good to rip dvd.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh.. yeah. I remember some tools that uses to create vob files or some shit. Man that was like... 15 years ago? ... I haven't had to rip a dvd in ages.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have all these DVDs, and want to view them without having to switch disks. I remember manually doing it back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly the best and easiest solution is to just download them from the internet. You can queue up your entire collection using radarr/sonarr and then come back to a bunch of sorted and renamed files ready to watch on your media server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To do that, I would need VPN, and my ISP shuns VPNs (they tend to block it or block you).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ok so VLC and Handbrake are two tools that can rip dvds/blurays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe sonarr could help with the naming. You can rip your CDs and have the files named 1,2,3 and then with sonar import the files and have them renamed to the proper series name and folder structure.

This may be semi automatic and you will still need a ripping software.

Other then that filebot is another good option that I have used.