New Filename Option

[CharlieF]

With the help of the forum, I was able to get the sw to name the files as they were being converted.
This required the advanced setting and using the Copy & Paste for each of the converted files selected.
For a movie not bad, but when converting disc with several episodes. It could be possible more efficient.

IT would be nice to have a checkbox that would append the disc lable as the filename prefix to the t00, ... for all files being converted.

[Woodstock]

Such as what happens if you have "SemiAuto" checked under Preferences->Video?

[CharlieF]

The semi-auto option still required me to paste a new name into each episode individually.
It did not do it automatically.

If I did not change the name field on each episode, the SW used Title00, Title01.... only

[Woodstock]

Unfortunately, that is not something that can be safely automated - not all disks have the episodes in the correct order.

I do this a LOT. I rip few movies, lots of TV shows. So, I let MakeMKV do part of the naming, then...

Modify one name to the pattern I want, such as:

Absolute Duo HD01

I then put in the clipboard PART of the string, "Absolute Duo HD0" (episodes 1-9 were on disk one, 10-12 on disk 2).

Hit the down arrow to move down to the next title, Ctrl-A (select everything), Ctrl-V (paste in clipboard), type "2", repeat down the line.

Next, I what I'm editing to "filename". Double-click on what MakeMKV put in automatically (Absolute_Duo_HD01_t00.mkv) to highlight the part before the extension, hit Ctrl-V, "1", down arrow, repeat for "2" through "9". Tell MakeMKV to start ripping.

I don't care what MakeMKV names the extras - they're going to get watched once and deleted.

Is it a perfect solution? Not really. And when I have to deal with disks from certain vendors, the episodes might be in the order 9,8,7,6,3,4,5,2,1 instead of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. But it moves pretty quick; I can queue a disk for ripping with the correct file names in about a minute.