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.
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.
So? You’d refuse to use a tool that does most of the work because you don’t wanna use the tool that does the rest?
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.
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.
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.
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.
