Very Newbie with Emby

[arrbee99 1815]

Also, if you highlight an item (eg the movie file), it'll give you extra info -

The chapter count can be useful (if you see two movies, same length, same size, but one just doesn't have a chapter count, you don't want that version.

The items that end .mpls or _t03 (or whatever).mkv can also be useful as there might be slightly different versions of the same movie and those help decide which to pick. eg Disney seem to use these numbers for .mpls files -

800 - English
801/2 - Spanish<>French

you want English, use 00800.mpls

see https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17167

It might seem a bit of a rigmarole, but you only do it once per movie and 99% of the time its a doddle.

[arrbee99 1815]

Not saying any of this is the best way to do stuff, its just the way I do it. There's no doubt others who find it weird / old fashioned / say 'why don't you do it this way, much easier...'

[crusher11 1101]

12 hours ago, roaku said:

The next place to check is highdefdigest to try to match up your files to content by their length:

https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/3271/bluesbrothers.html

 

https://dvdcompare.net/index.php

A much better option for this.

[zfrenchy 12]

OK,

I will follow all rules for the files structures to have a good "Feature Library", but ... always a but ...

I rip Battle Los Angeles, at the end I got two files for the movie "Battle- Los Angeles_t25.mkv and Battle- Los Angeles_t26.mkv", I cannot see any difference on the media info from VLC, same resolution, same sound ....  first is 29,812,415KB, second 29,812,453KB, bigger-better ?

Also, look at the screenshot, some feature are doubled, how I know what to choose for best result ?

Alternate question; should I name the extra/feature film with another name than the movie, like I did in the screenshot ?

 

 

[arrbee99 1815]

Don't know if I can help much. I would just say generally try watching both versions just around places like titles to see of one is in a language you don't want, as per previous Star Wars comment.

Also, watching them in say vlc and right clicking while its playing and picking audio or subtitles from the menu that appears will give a list of audio tracks and subtitle tracks in the movie. Sometimes one version will have an extra 5.1 audio track or something, hence the bigger file. Whether you want to keep that extra track, if any, is up to you.

Might also be a language thing for the duplicated extras as well.

Don't forget Google is worth a try. This

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4648

has a comment near the bottom of the first page that the difference is to do with language (though it might be a different version from your version / disc)-

'Thanks for the tip.
Joe42 was right, the only difference is the localized title of the film.
So, for the title "World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles" it's 124,136,125
"Battle Los Angeles" is 124,125,126
"Invasion a la Tierra" is 124,137,126'

[arrbee99 1815]

I imagine its OK to rename extras if you want (but I'm not an extras person, so...) but I'd keep the movie title the same, plus the year, as in - Battle Los Angeles (2011).mkv

 

[zfrenchy 12]

everything's going well with the ripping of DVD and BD, except one movie, "The departed", for some reason I cannot ripp'it, anny tips and tricks to do this one ?

 

Also, about subtitle, I have a movie only in English audio, no subtitle at all, what is the procedure to add subtitles to a movie ?

[arrbee99 1815]

I can only suggest a few things I've either tried or seen suggested -

For The Departed it can sometimes help to-

turn off your computer completely for a minute and then restart (not rebooting, proper power off at the wall).

Clean the disc with very soft cloth, from the centre outwards, not in circles round the disk. Clean with water (preferably distilled).

Try to copy the disk as a straight copy to a HDD so it makes a folder with BDMV etc files in it instead of ripping straight to a mkv. Then run MakeMKV again but try to make a mkv from the copy you made on HDD not the disk version.

Not sure about subtitles. If you compress movies using Handbrake you can add subs using the subtitles tab or I think you can use something called Mkvtoolnix, but I don't know much about that (well maybe a tiny bit using Handbrake)