Windows One Button DVD/BluRay Ripping using a Launcher from within XBMC

(2012-04-27 20:04)Joeforsale Wrote:  Also, setting XBMC to Full Screen Windowed mode stopped it from minimizing for me. This is not a request but merely a question: What would it take to have AutoRipDVD ask you whether you are ripping a tv show (change RipMinSeconds accordingly) or Movie and then place them in the appropriate folder? Also, for:
:rename
::Cuts off 1st 5 characters of fname, then appends prefix
ren %fname% "%volid%"_%fname:~5%

How hard would it be to have it possibly scan IMDB for proper title and then let you select what the proper title is before renaming?

The easiest way to accomplish your first question is to simply install AutoRipDVD a second time into a different location, set the paths for TV Shows in the AutoRipDVD.bat file as well as the minimum rip time, then create a seperate launcher to "Rip TV Show".

So basically you have one launcher to rip movies and one to rip tv shows.

The second question on scrapping imdb is beyond the scope of this program. You would need to do a proper python addon, which is very possible to do, but isn't something I am capable of. If I ever get enough free time (unlikely), I will sit down, teach myself python and do up something a bit more polished.

I'm having an issue now when I try to copy a Bluray the OSDAutoRip text file shows on screen and nothing gets copied. Any suggestions? Also, the scrapper can never find the movies when I update library.

Wired but it actually was making a copy. I assumed it wasn't because there was an empty Fellowship of the Ring folder created, but the movie was actually placed in a folder titled ECHO.

(2012-04-29 02:17)Joeforsale Wrote:  Wired but it actually was making a copy. I assumed it wasn't because there was an empty Fellowship of the Ring folder created, but the movie was actually placed in a folder titled ECHO.

It seems you may have changed some of the files other than just the settings in AutoRipDVD.bat at the top? Did you alter other code at all? Maybe accidentally?

I would recommend re-downloading a fresh copy and very carefully change the settings at the top of the text file. No one else has reported these issues and I cannot duplicate them on three different systems of my own. So probably just an accidental code change maybe, so things are going a little haywire.

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(2012-04-29 00:34)Joeforsale Wrote:  I'm having an issue now when I try to copy a Bluray the OSDAutoRip text file shows on screen and nothing gets copied. Any suggestions? Also, the scrapper can never find the movies when I update library.

Are the volume names of your disc's the same as the movie title? if they are not, or misspelled etc, then they wont scrape. Legit movies almost always have the movie title as the volume name, which the script grabs and renames the file as. If your volume names are not the movie name you can still use the script but will have to manually, either in windows or in the video files section (not library) of xbmc manually rename them to the correct title.

I managed to get my issue with subtitles sorted, and it was exactly that MY issue LOL, didn't realise subtitles were enabled by default on XBMC, reason I hadn't noticed before was because I played videos from DVD which doesn't have subtitles set by default.

Quick question, may be beyond the capabilities of MakeMKV though, is it possible to compress the DVD/BluRay so it doesn't take as much HDD space?

I've seen pretty decent compressed HD quality films at around 5-10GB.

(2012-04-29 20:15)denz13 Wrote:  I managed to get my issue with subtitles sorted, and it was exactly that MY issue LOL, didn't realise subtitles were enabled by default on XBMC, reason I hadn't noticed before was because I played videos from DVD which doesn't have subtitles set by default.

Quick question, may be beyond the capabilities of MakeMKV though, is it possible to compress the DVD/BluRay so it doesn't take as much HDD space?

I've seen pretty decent compressed HD quality films at around 5-10GB.

MakeMKV will not compress the video. You can use Handbrake to do that. It also has a cli, so could be added to the script to automatically compress the files after MakeMKV has done it's thing. I haven't added this, as it would complicate the script (everyone will want different levels of compression for example, the time it takes to re-encode a file is quite long and most wouldn't want to wait, or wait as long etc etc), but please take a look here for the handbrake commands.

https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CLIGuide

These could be added after the renaming done in the current script, to then re-encode the video to a smaller file. The nice thing is, you could use the variables in the current script in your handbrake command, so the work of determining the DVD path, the volume name, the output path is already taken care of with AutoRipDVD.bat.

Handbrake is Open Source and can be downloaded here: http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

Wow, looks like i'm going to have to do some reading! Thanks for all your help! Will let you know how I get on and possibly repost a script if I get one together so others can amend and use if they'd also like to have compression.
Cheers

FYI Spinalcrack...

Nice and simple.

Have it all working except I also have the same issue as Joeforsale in which it creates the output folder as ECHO

Downloaded a fresh copy of batch file and was VERY careful making changes but still had ECHO output file

Thanks!

Hi SpinalCrack, I'm really struggling with putting this script together for added compression.

Any chance you could give me a few pointers?

Basically I just want to add a compression process to your already brilliant program so my DVD rips are between 1-5GB and my BluRays 3-10GB.

What do I need to add to my script to be able to do this? I've had a quick read through the CLI guide but really have no idea where to start when putting a script together.

I've managed to get the auto rip n compress program working within XBMC by setting up the standalone exe with Advanced Launcher.

http://experts.windows.com/frms/windows_...81697.aspx



This does exactly what I wanted, rip and compress. Thanks for your help anyway SpinalCrack and hope you keep up the good work on your solution.