MediaSlayer - CD and DVD HD ripping tool (2 Viewers)

[ToXIc]

i just started ripping everything in windows..
cds and dvds

 

[-Manfred-]

questions and requests. mostly requests.

1. Add a button to do nothing but rip and not add to the database. This would be better for users of My Movies plugin.
2. use the code from My Movies to generate the Disc ID and do a lookup of the disc based on that ID. It will narrow down the number of returned movies GREATLY when looking up the movie info.
3. have the .iso files (or whatever format) stored in individual folders and not just all in one folder. Again, better for users that use My Movies.
For example:
c:\movies\men in black\men in black.iso
c:\movies\cars\cars.iso
c:\movies\matrix\matrix.iso

I would think 1 and 3 could be farily quick to implement (haven't seen your code, though). And would greatly enhance the movie experience for My Movies users almost instantly.

number 2 I think would take a while to do. But would be cool if possible. No more looking at just the name of the disc to pull what to name the .iso file and directory it is in. More accurate info could be gathered upfront before the disc has even started to be ripped.

I guess I really didn't have any questions. Well, I do. Can I get this by tomorrow???? LOL Just kidding.

1. If you don't select the Get cover art plugin will not store movie to database. No extra buttons needed as this is already in GUI.

2. Tried that and for region 2 discs hit rate is really small so no real benefit seen but I can leave it in the code anyway. It will get disc id and then use that to get title from M$ movie metadata server.

3. Let see... easy to do though.

1st of thank you for an awesome plugin......

i have 2 problems though

1: CD ripping works great no problems at all but when i attempt to rip a DVD it just sits on analyzing disk.
if i uses DVDfab in windows it rips the movie to iso with no issues at all but just stalls in MP.
2: i would like to use Xface 1.7 but when ever i go into mediaslayer its like working with molasses, a simple up or down takes minutes.

thanks again

1. DVDFab version??? There is note at first page about problems with DVDFab command line interface. That is why I would like to remove support for it totally!

2. Not a plugin problem.

Firstly, thanks for producing such a high quality plugin. It truly does rock.

One question i have though, is whether it's possible to simply rip DVD's straight to hdd? I run several different media centers, and my dvd collection resides in a shared locaiton in .IFO and .VOB format. So

\DVD's\MovieName\Video_TS\*

Can mediaslayer support a simple copy of the DVD to HDD (assuming inline decryptor like AnyDVD running) ?

Thanks!

Not so easy as first you might think. Main movie files should be identified first and then also copy some ifo files. Too much hassle compared to what you gain.

Some words about mencoder. I'm not able to reproduce that scenario where it just sits doing nothing and that is why correcting is impossible. I have sent sources to one user who is familiar with c# and has this same problem but haven't receive anything back yet. So that can take some time to get fixed. What we can do is enable all loggings for mencoder to see if there is something strange ongoing.

Is there users who has mencoder ripping working?

 

[mlburgoon]

Cool, number 1 is taken care of then. Maybe make number 2 an option in the advanced gui??? and 3 would just be gravy for users that want to use My Movies.

You are the awesome king of the universe if you can add these options!!!!

The Idea being that
1. I setup media slayer to pull the movie name from m$ (or wherever) and use that as the FOLDER name (and name of .iso as well).
2. setup media slayer to NOT get cover art.
3. store each movie in its own folder (either ripped to an .iso or just a straight copy so I don't need to use daemon tools, etc..)

then My Movies would be able to pull the info for the movie directly from the name of the folder!!!

 

[mdbarber]

now occasionally i like a film and may decide to rip it to hdd so looked for a built in solution, found this and thought wtf??, install instructions very vague dude what goes where? and is it really only compatible with the one skin?

 

[joz]

It's not that vague, it's an mpi so you just double click it and install it.

No, not just one skin is supported. aMPed supports it too. Look at the skin sub forum for skin files.

 

[mlburgoon]

hmmm.. I had a thought about the requests i put in above. If I say don't get the cover art, then I don't get it for cd's either, do I? I want to get it all for cd's, but not for movies... hmmm... I need to test some things....

 

[Griffo]

Not so easy as first you might think. Main movie files should be identified first and then also copy some ifo files. Too much hassle compared to what you gain.

Thanks for that..

If i have a script though that automates the AnyDVD rip-to-disk option, is it possible to use mediaslayer to launch it somehow?

Thanks

 

[-Manfred-]

Well, if you have script ready it might be possible to implement that natively into plugin. Like to share that?

 

[Griffo]

Thanks. Unforutnately they aren't my scripts, but posted by community members on the Slysoft forums

forum.************/showthread.php?t=19946

(which should be forum DOT slysoft DOT com)

 

[ThaClown]

Cool, number 1 is taken care of then. Maybe make number 2 an option in the advanced gui??? and 3 would just be gravy for users that want to use My Movies.

You are the awesome king of the universe if you can add these options!!!!

The Idea being that
1. I setup media slayer to pull the movie name from m$ (or wherever) and use that as the FOLDER name (and name of .iso as well).
2. setup media slayer to NOT get cover art.
3. store each movie in its own folder (either ripped to an .iso or just a straight copy so I don't need to use daemon tools, etc..)

then My Movies would be able to pull the info for the movie directly from the name of the folder!!!

That woukd be perfect indeed, also good for Moving Pictures.

Now im ripping the movies and manually moving them to a folder with the moviue name...