DVD TV Series?

[Jacko]

Im also after such a feature; although most of my tv is avi's i do have a small amount as iso and dvds, its a shame that i can't add these yet.

Hope someone who can program (not me ) will be able to implement this.

Regards

[nic_06]

Originally Posted by Inker

Heres an idea, although it requires a seperate program to work.

Install AviSynth and create a correctly named .avs file for every episode that is in the vobs. You can use this even if multiple episodes are in one vob file. Then just add .avs to the list of video extensions.

Heres the theory. AviSynth is a frame serving application. Basically you give it a source (or several) and can perform operations on it, such as cutting (this is why you can virtually cut out episodes from one vob file). The resulting .avs file (just a text file) is playable from any directshow player (such as MP). So you don't parse and play the vob files directly, but the .avs files which then go to the vob and hand the video/audio stream to MP.

A simple script would look like so ("D:\My Series on Vobs - 1x01 - Pilot.avs"):

DirectshowSource("d:\vobWithManyEps.vob")
SelectRange(0,5000) // first ep in vob is in first 50000 frames

Note: I haven't tried this but I'm pretty sure it'll work.

Hi Inker!

I have tried this out, but it doesn`t work. It play nothing


regards nico

[Inker]

Does the file play in wmp or another player (mpc/zplayer, etc?)

[nic_06]

no...

[Inker]

Then your script isnt right.

Do you get a black video with red error message? If not then avisynnth isnt installed correctly.
If yes then the script has an error (maybe typo?....but the red text will tell you what's wrong).

Anybody else tried it?

[nic_06]

I get this error when playing with mediaplayer classic:

"Ein entsprechendes Dekomprimierprogramm konnte für diese Datei nicht gedownloadet werden. (Fehler=80040200)"

There is no red error message.

It`s in german. I hope you understand...:-)

[Inker]

Sounds to me like AviSynth isn't properly installed. Which version did you get?

[nic_06]

2.5

[keith2045]

I dont know if this will help anyone but i have all of my dvd's ripped and they show up in MP TV series. They are stored like this

root\TVShows\Show name\Show name - 01x01 - Pilot\VIDEO_TS

And have these in the parsing expressions

simple - <series> - <season>x<episode> - <title>\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO
simple - <series> - <season>x<episode> -\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO
simple - <series> - <season>x<episode> - <title>.avi

It gets all of the dvd's and avi's.

[jocke]

As you can see in keith2045's post, if you wan't to play DVD's from a VIDEO_TS-folder, you'll need to point it to the VIDEO_TS.IFO in the VIDEO_TS-folder in order to be sure it's working. I have no idea if MP is supposed to support pointing only to a folder containing VIDEO_TS/AUDIO_TS-folders, but I've not gotten it to work unless I point it to the .IFO-file.