Tv series from dvd

[Beav 18]

I have been ripping tv series from DVDs. I have been saving each episode track individually as an mp4. This a real pain as you need to find the right tracks on each DVD. As a test I tried ripping an entire DVD of a series with vod subfolders and named as seriess01e01-03. Emby shows the title of the show but will only play one episode. Am I missing something? Do I need to save the files in a different format? Or do I need to keep slogging through the same way as before?

 

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[Luke 42081]

How exactly is it named? Thanks.

[Beav 18]

as an example TV/Saturday Night Live/Saturday Night Live S01E01-03 with 2 sub-folders: audio and vod. I think that's right. I will double check once I'm home. Thanks for your help

[Luke 42081]

Ok, the further away you go from our supported naming conventions for tv, the more problems you can expect to see.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

I rip to MKV and then I identify episodes by popping in the disc and starting each show while I open the ripped MKVs on my laptop.  It only takes a few minutes to confirm what tracks are what episodes and, if you keep them, makes it really easy to keep the specials labeled correctly.

Ripping TV isn't easy but it's worth it.  I definitely can't recommend your VOB experiment.  You aren't likely to be happy with the results of that.  Those formats require a lot of transcoding and the naming is relatively difficult.

[Beav 18]

Now that I can double check the file names are TV/Saturday Night Live/Saturday Night Live S01E01-03 with 2 sub-folders: Audio_TS and Video_TS.

Should they be name differently?

[Luke 42081]

I would suggest converting into three separate video files.

[Beav 18]

That's what I normaly due but I was hoping to save some time and effort. As you know season can have multiple DVDs with serval files and it gets to be a pain getting the files named correctly. I have "George of the Jungle" and the episodes were all over the place when ripping. For example Track 01 was episode 3 while Track 3 was episode 2. That kind of thing. I was kind of hoping that ripping the whole DVD would give me a menu of all the episodes from the disc (S01E1, S01E2, S0E3 etc.). If it can't it's no big deal. Maybe something in the future? For now, hey I can work with it the old way.

Edited November 6, 2018 by Beav

[Luke 42081]

 

 

I was kind of hoping that ripping the whole DVD would give me a menu of all the episodes from the disc (S01E1, S01E2, S0E3 etc.).

 

It will not. We don't do that kind of thing with folder rips.

[Beav 18]

Then I must have misunderstood the Wiki.

[Spaceboy 2573]

It’s a pain ripping from dvds correctly buts it’s always worth the effort

[Luke 42081]

Then I must have misunderstood the Wiki.

 

 

We do allow you to name this way as a holdover from the Media Browser 2 days, but any kind of transcoding for folder rips is only experimental. That's why we suggest converting to mkv.