I have no idea what I am doing! (1 Viewer)

[refloghctarcs]

OK, I am making progress with my configuration of my new MePo. I have one final high priority function I would like to get working, TV Series. I have it installed and I have it configured. Now I have 2 series DVDs that I am using for a test. Monk Season 4 and Remington Steele Season 3. I ripped one disk form each set and tried to import them into the Configurator. Once I set the path and refresh for Monk I get the following file names showing up in the in the import screen

MONK\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO
MONK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
MONK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_0.IFO
MONK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_03_0.IFO

For REMINGTON STEELE I get:

REMINGTON_S3_D1A\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO
REMINGTON_S3_D1A\VIDEO_TS\ VTS_01_0.IFO
REMINGTON_S3_D1A\VIDEO_TS\ VTS_02_0.IFO
REMINGTON_S3_D1A\VIDEO_TS\ VTS_03_0.IFO
REMINGTON_S3_D1A\VIDEO_TS\ VTS_04_0.IFO
REMINGTON_S3_D1A\VIDEO_TS\ VTS_05_0.IFO
REMINGTON_S3_D1A\VIDEO_TS\ VTS_06_0.IFO
REMINGTON_S3_D1A\VIDEO_TS\ VTS_07_0.IFO
REMINGTON_S3_D1A\VIDEO_TS\ VTS_08_0.IFO

All of these names are highleted in Red. Te Parsed Season Name, Season ID, Episode ID, and Episode Title are all blank. I assume I need to rename the files, but which files do I rename and what must I rename them to? Will I need to rename all the file once I rip a DVD?

Any help would be appreciated. By the way, I have not idea how to write a regular expression, I don’t mind trr to do it but, I have no idea what the end result would be.


Thanks,

Bob

 

[RoChess]

You are going to run into a lot of problems.

This is because MP-TVSeries right now only supports one or two episodes *per* file. And unless you are lucky and each VOB file is an episode, you most likely have 1GB VOB files with the total of them spanning like 6 episodes via a chapter system with menu.

The ideal way would be to remux them from the DVD container format to the MKV or MP4 container format, which means the same video and audio codecs are used and it's a simple matter of copying the data into a new container. Unlike transcoding which means converting the DVD MPEG-2 into say MPEG-4, this remux process goes super fast (100MB/s xfer speeds type of deal, so a 9GB DVD can be remuxed in 90 seconds).

If you are lucky and each "VTS_xx_0.IFO" file represents an episode, you can rename them to for example "Monk S04E01.ifo", and adjust the "VIDEO_TS.IFO" into "VIDEO_TS.IFO2" or something so that it gets ignored (or leave the items yellow in import wizard). But if "VIDEO_TS.IFO" is needed as menu structure to play each episode correctly, then you would have to create hardlinks to simulate the episodes, but then when you play an episode you are always first presented with the menu, or first episode will start playback and you have to skip to the one you meant to play.