How does MediPortal handle 2-Disc DVDs? (1 Viewer)

[radiog33k]

How would one catalog a DVD thats spans multiple dics (i.e. Pearl Harbor is a good example) so that it shows up as a single DVD entry in the catalog filmstrip? I tried adding mutiple files to the files tab but this didnt work. Any assistacne would be appreciated. I have searched the forum and googled the web on this and cant seemt o find an answer...I have a felling I might not like the answer but fire away anyway...thanks!

/Pete

 

[radiog33k]

Fixed

Nevermind...I figured it out....

 

[gwillia1]

What was your solution? I just rip to two folders... with Disc 1, Disc 2 suffixes. Did you find an elegant way? G.

 

[milhouse]

Yes, I am also interested in your answer.

It will depend on how you've got them ripped, too. For example, I have my DVDs ripped as ISOs, and remove everything but the main movie. Since MP stacking doesn't handle ISO stacking very well (it doesn't stop at the end of the first first and move directly to the second file), I typically re-author the DVDs. I move all the main movie files into one big ISO in order (e.g. title 1, title 2...). Then it really is one file, plays straight from one title to the next, so it's as seemless as I could want.

 

[radiog33k]

gwilla1 - thanks for th enote. I rip my DVDs as full disc rips and then point to the VIDEO_TS.IFO file in the files tab. For two disc movies, I just add another file pointer. When you run playback, MP will ask you which disc to pick.

milhouse - do the ISOs allow you to save disc space? do you sacrifice any quality with this method? What are you using o create the ISOs? Thanks in advance.

 

[milhouse]

An ISO is just a disk image, like you would burn back to a DVD. It does not compress anything, so no loss in quality.

I use DVD Shrink to create the ISOs. With this program I can remove menus and special features (I keep only the main movie on disk to save a little space) as well as re-author (put multiple DVD titles into a single ISO for multi-disk DVDs). And average single disk DVD with special features removed is around 5 GB. Should be the same size as ripping this into the ts_video folders.

 

[gwillia1]

Thanks radiog33k, that works for me too. No longer are my multi-disc films duplicated in my list Muchos Thank you! BTW, I too am doing file-based full rips.