monokitty

What's the best way to extract each episode from a stash of DVD's? MacTheRipper and Handbrake doesn't seem to do this properly. Suggestions?

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Liam@Large

I use Handbrake for this all the time. What issues are you having with it?

monokitty

I can't seem to rip them individually. (The episodes.) It wants to rip it as a single 2+ hour video file.

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ertman

Well is compression a requirement (disk space)? do you need it in a specific format, such as mp4, etc?

If answered no to the above and disk size is not an issue and you have a large amount of freedom in regards to file support, then mkv might work for you using Makemkv. I have limited experience, but you can create lossless files of individual shows. It takes the mpeg2 stream from the DVD and places it in a mkv formatted container. Because of my limited experience, I cannot guarantee the program, but it seems to work well, and it decrypts it for you, so no need for mactheripper. You select/deselect the titles that you want (the 2+hour one will be there too, just deselect it) and you can also deselect unneeded audio tracks and subtitles. You will have to go back and rename the files after completion of the dvd or disk image.

If you answered yes to the above questions, then mactheripper + handbrake should work for you. I have used this extensively.

Have you selected the right "title" for encoding? It automatically selects the longest one to start with, and with some dvds this would be the "play all" option on the disk and would be all the episodes for that disc, hence 2 + hrs. The suggestion would be to take a look at what is listed in the title pulldown under source, and select an appropriate title. Usually 40-45mins for an hour long program, or 20-25min for a half hour long program. This "should" be selectable. You then will have to select each individual title for each episode in the title pulldown and add them to you queue.

monokitty

Yeah, the season DVD in question has no individual titles under Handbrake. Guess that's that.

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ertman

I have never come across that before, and I have tried a decent enough variety of shows.

jhuynh

I don't have it in front of me so I'm not certain exactly where or what it's called but there should be a drop down list where you can choose which track to encode. Find the ones that are about 20-25 min (for 30 min shows) or 40-45 (for 1 hour shows). If there are 4 episodes on the disc you should see 4 tracks that are about 20-25 min long. Add it to the queue for encoding and select the next track for encoding until you have each one in the queue and then start encoding..

digitddog

Hi, Lars. Here's a tip I picked up from macrumors.

--quote (edited for spelling)--
Beware that while most TV show disks have each episode as a separate title some have one long title with each episode as a different range of chapters, for example:

Chapters 1-5 are Episode 1
Chapters 6-10 are Episode 2
Chapters 11-15 are Episode 3
And so on........

If this is the case you'll need to play the disk in a dvd player software and make a note of which chapter correspond with each episode.
--/quote--