Ripping DVDs/Blurays with MakeMKV (1 Viewer)

[Neoculture]

I have been using MakeMKV for a while now to rip my collection (mostly DVDs, a few BluRays) onto my fileserver. I am happy with what MakeMKV produces, even if the files are big (I have the room for it), so much so that I use a licensed version rather than the free version.

Having built a HTPC and put a Bluray drive in it, I would like to use it to do the ripping (instead of my laptop) since it has more grunt. However, I do not want to stop/start MediaPortal every time I want to rip a disk.

Is there a way to integrate MakeMKV into MediaPortal?

 

[1stdead]

Well not unless you can code. However makemkv does support commandline so perhaps you can set it to trigger if something is inserted in you bluray drive.
Usage can be found here: http://www.makemkv.com/developers/usage.txt
Remember to quote your paths like "C:\program files\makemkv\makemkvcon.exe".

Another solution might be https://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensions/utilities/media-slayer , however i don't know if it works for Mediaportal 1.2.

 

[Neoculture]

Damn. Since there was an option to use an external player in MP (which I don't, I'll admit - my trial at using MPC-HC as the player didn't turn out well) I was kind of hoping there was a way to add a menu item in MP to call an external ripper.

Oh well, I'm unfortunately not a windows programmer, so it's back to the drawing board... Thanks for the heads-up, though.

 

[1stdead]

Ok, i did some diggin.
You might want to use eventghost. Set i to listen when media is inserted and then the batch file with the commandline code:

So script might look like in script.bat
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\MakeMKV"
makemkvcon mkv disc:0 all "c:\folder"

this will extract all titles and then we might move the largest file(we're blindly guessing here, but largest might contain movie)

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /os "%c:\folder%"') do set bigFile=%%a
​

move "%c:\folder%\%bigFile% "C:\final\"​

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I'm not sure how you would do the renaming of the file to get the info in movingpictures right. (and btw. i'm not sure the batchcode works, but fixed something together fast)​

Reference you might want to read
http://home4film.com/questions/941/no-click-dvd-ripping
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=99019

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
You can simply integrate nearly any Program you like into MP with Multishortcut Plugin. This should be working for MakeMKV as well. Multishortcut is available in a V1.2 compatible version, so you can use it with actual release...

 

[Neoculture]

Lehmden: Thanks - that sounds ideal.

1stdead: Thank you for the suggestion. Batch coding doesn't scare me, so I'll keep this in mind if Multishortcut doesn't work for me.

Thanks to you both.