DVD TV Series in MP-TVSeries (1 Viewer)

[chris882]

Hello,
first let me say, i'm new in using Mediaportal. But i learned o love it. It runs and runs and ...

Now i want to implement the MP-TVSeries plugin, because i love series like The Simpsons, King Of Queens and others. The recordings work very good. But as a real fan i also have many DVDs.
Now i want to add them to MP-TVSeries. My aim is to use directly the .vob files, which are stored locally on my hdd.
The structure might be like: root\simpsons\season 1\disc 1\

I just used some threads in this forum (f.e. https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/my-tvseries-162/dvd-tv-series-19215/) and also used google but can't find a solution.

My aim is to see the season, then the episode with its information and when i click on the episode it has to start. Preferred not the whole DVD.

Here some information about my versions:
Mediaportal: 1.0 final
MP-TVSeries: 2.0.3279 (SVN) test build

I hope that you understand my problem. Can anybody help me? If you need some further information don't be shy. ;-)

 

[Helios61]

Hi chris882!

Same issue here, but I've given up! I think, there is no propper solution for that at this moment ! Now i have converted my DVDs with DVDFab to .avi - files and it works great!

Best regards
Helios

 

[chris882]

Hi Helios,
thanks for your reply. Because i'm new to Mediaportal and many experience with opensource i'm not giving up.

Perhaps there is someone who implemented it in such a way. Otherwise i'm going to test DVDFab. Perhaps this is a easy way to get it.

Greetz chris

 

[Undel]

Same here... I don't think that it is possible. The reason is very simple: plugin parses series by file names, not by internal metainfo, and all dvds contain files named "VTS_01_1.vob", "VTS_01_1.IFO"etc.

 

[keith2045]

Maybe I dont understand what is being requested, but it works fine with .vob files. Just put each episode in it's own folder (ie Simpsons\Simpsons - 01x01 - Pilot\vob files...) then use this reg expression to pick them up

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

It gets the information from the folder names and not from the file names (in this case anyway)

 

[Undel]

Very often one episode could consist of more then one .vob file or one .vob file can contain few episodes. Splitting or combining lots of DVDs could be a very hard work. And this is working only for DVDs stored on HDD - you can't import your collection of original DVDs.

 

[keith2045]

Very often one episode could consist of more then one .vob file or one .vob file can contain few episodes. Splitting or combining lots of DVDs could be a very hard work. And this is working only for DVDs stored on HDD - you can't import your collection of original DVDs.

It is very easy to 'configure' your vobs to contain only 1 episode (and it can span across multiple vobs). The method above will work if the episode contains multiple vobs. I will not go into details on how it is done (since it is illegal in some countries and not the point of this thread).

 

[GDusty]

1) Use DVD Shrink to load the D1 files that are on your HDD.

2) in DVD Shrink go to the "Reauthor" window.

3) you will likely see 4 or 5 main "titles" that represent each episode.

4) drag one of these to the left-hand pane, configure the languages/subtitles you want, then click "Backup" (and choose a new directory name, such as "Ep01"

5) repeat step 4 for each ep

6) Make sure TV series path parsing options are configured to recognise something like series/seasonxx/Epxx/VIDEO_TS.IFO

7) Done.

 

[chris882]

GDusty: i gonna try this this evening. what are the named D1 files?

 

[Helios61]

Hi chris882!

I have thought about, how i did it in the past: First i have ripped my DVD-Series wirth DVDFab as single episodes to HD!



Each episode has its own folder! After that i have converted the eoisode with AutoGordianKnot to .avi-files!

Sorry for the wrong information in the PM!

Best regards
Helios