TV Series DVD Problem (1 Viewer)

nokmond

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Hi all, I have a TV series, Prime Suspect, which does not scrape the same as all of my other series.

Most series are, for eg, - Season 01 - Episode 01 etc etc, but Prime Suspect Series 1 DVD is just Part 1 & Part 2, all on the same DVD.

I've ripped it to a VIDEO_TS folder but there are 25 vob files in there.

Does anyone know how I can get the importer to recognise the series?

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have you tried adding the extension to list of video files in mp config?

Yes. It recognises the files are there but won't parse them because its a dvd. I would usually rip the dvd into seperate episodes but there isn't any episodes on this dvd, just chapters?
 

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    nokmond

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    presumably if it is recognising the files, you just need to rename them to show.S##E##.vob. tv series doesn't officially support more than 2 episodes in a single file or dvds with chapters. so you just have to name the vob file to the first episode that the vob file contains.

    Issue 133 - mptvseries - Ability to use a single ISO as target for mulitple episodes + loading of ISO's - Project Hosting on Google Code

    Thanks - I'll try that. Would I need to change all 25 vob's to s##e##.vob or justthe first one and hope it picks it up?
     

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    Doing this would then prevent you from using the VIDEO_TS as an actual DVD rip, DVD software is not going to be able to play it back as a complete disk.

    This is why I have decided to just transcode all my TV DVD rips to x264. Chews up a bunch more space, but I guess I can then use the files on my Archos or any other portable player as well.
     

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    jellybeard999

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    Use DVDDecryptor or DVDShrink to rip the DVD to a large single vob file - theres a setting in there to do this, rather than using a 1gb split required by DVD standards. Rename this .vob to .mpg if it makes it easier to handle, then just rename the episode file to S01E01 etc. This will be a direct transcode, so will be exactly the same quality as the DVD. If it takes more than 10-15 minutes, you're re-encoding and degrading the quality, if that concerns you, however it will be a much smaller file.
     

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