Identifying Episodes after conversion to mkv

[rmk13]

Hi

I am converting BluRays to mkv again...
And I have many TV series - one of them is for example Twin Peaks. The problem is that the naming (..._txx.mkv) does obviously not follow any order related to the episode order.

I have MediaInfo (https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo) which helps identifying the episodes compared to the extras, but it does not help, in many cases, to identify the actual episode number. Is there any tool put there which can help with this? I mean it should be conceptually straight forward to extract a few seconds of dialogue and / or frames and use these to identify the episode. Is there something out there which I did not find? I am using FileBot to rename the files finally after adding the Season and Episode manually, but it is a chore to look into the first frames and try to identify the episode. Is there an automated or easier way of doing this by now?

Thanks, and please feel free to refer me to a discussion where this was answered (I could not find anything helpful)

Rainer

PS: This is obviously worse with the extras....

[flojo]

With a little bit of scripting you might be able to match them based on $SECONDS, but the tough part might be finding a source online that stores the seconds (not just minutes) of each episode which can also be scraped via wget/curl to get the JSON/CSV/etc.

I could post here a JSON for the episodes but you'd have to scrap/parse yourself, however you'd have at least 1 source.

[rmk13]

Thanks - I used that approach manually using https://www.dvdcompare.net/index.php .

But I also have several others, but there are no runtimes on dvdcompare. So I think I will give series a pause (although these are especially useful on Plex). Or I will just dump the BluRays and then put in the BluRay and go through the Menu and the opening sequences.

[flojo]

I've labeled a few series' by using the seconds of rips found on the internet, but it's hit or miss (50/50) because some things you download have the production cards or color bars or something edited out, even if it's a "Remux". However, I believe Twin Peaks downloaded "Remuxes" were correct so I used them. Regardless I'll post them just in case.

Generated output with:

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for i in *.mkv; do echo "$(ffprobe -i "$i" -show_entries format=duration -v quiet -of csv="p=0"),$i"; done

Output (seconds,filename):

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6773.184000,Twin.Peaks.S01E01.2160p.Northwest.Passage.International.Version.2160p.UHD.BluRay.REMUX.SDR.HEVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-EPSiLON.mkv
5640.512000,Twin.Peaks.S01E01.2160p.Northwest.Passage.UHD.BluRay.REMUX.SDR.HEVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-EPSiLON.mkv
2787.868000,Twin.Peaks.S01E02.Traces.to.Nowhere.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2896.353000,Twin.Peaks.S01E03.Zen.or.the.Skill.to.Catch.a.Killer.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2817.106000,Twin.Peaks.S01E04.Rest.in.Pain.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2820.359000,Twin.Peaks.S01E05.The.One-Armed.Man.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2786.951000,Twin.Peaks.S01E06.Coopers.Dreams.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2817.398000,Twin.Peaks.S01E07.Realization.Time.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2807.763000,Twin.Peaks.S01E08.The.Last.Evening.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
5652.814000,Twin.Peaks.S02E01.May.the.Giant.Be.with.You.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2815.019000,Twin.Peaks.S02E02.Coma.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2826.866000,Twin.Peaks.S02E03.The.Man.Behind.Glass.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2818.107000,Twin.Peaks.S02E04.Lauras.Secret.Diary.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2827.908000,Twin.Peaks.S02E05.The.Orchids.Curse.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2844.550000,Twin.Peaks.S02E06.Demons.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2848.137000,Twin.Peaks.S02E07.Lonely.Souls.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2840.004000,Twin.Peaks.S02E08.Drive.with.a.Dead.Girl.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2807.307000,Twin.Peaks.S02E09.Arbitrary.Law.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2841.464000,Twin.Peaks.S02E10.Dispute.Between.Brothers.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2844.011000,Twin.Peaks.S02E11.Masked.Ball.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2788.411000,Twin.Peaks.S02E12.The.Black.Widow.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2815.271000,Twin.Peaks.S02E13.Checkmate.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2770.893000,Twin.Peaks.S02E14.Double.Play.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2806.846000,Twin.Peaks.S02E15.Slaves.and.Masters.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2839.837000,Twin.Peaks.S02E16.The.Condemned.Woman.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2759.757000,Twin.Peaks.S02E17.Wounds.and.Scars.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2810.266000,Twin.Peaks.S02E18.On.the.Wings.of.Love.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2819.442000,Twin.Peaks.S02E19.Variations.on.Relations.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2836.851000,Twin.Peaks.S02E20.The.Path.to.the.Black.Lodge.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
2783.030000,Twin.Peaks.S02E21.Miss.Twin.Peaks.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
3030.152000,Twin.Peaks.S02E22.Beyond.Life.and.Death.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-NOGRP.mkv
8108.089000,Twin.Peaks.S02E99.Fire.Walk.with.Me.1992.2160p.UHD.Blu-ray.Remux.SDR.HEVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-CiNEPHiLES.mkv
3635.507000,Twin.Peaks.S03E01.Part.1.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3274.605000,Twin.Peaks.S03E02.Part.2.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3531.820000,Twin.Peaks.S03E03.Part.3.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3417.497000,Twin.Peaks.S03E04.Part.4.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3498.286000,Twin.Peaks.S03E05.Part.5.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3483.772000,Twin.Peaks.S03E06.Part.6.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3454.785000,Twin.Peaks.S03E07.Part.7.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3498.955000,Twin.Peaks.S03E08.Part.8.Gotta.Light.2160p.UHD.BluRay.REMUX.SDR.HEVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-EPSiLON.mkv
3500.372000,Twin.Peaks.S03E09.Part.9.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3203.826000,Twin.Peaks.S03E10.Part.10.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3433.889000,Twin.Peaks.S03E11.Part.11.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3293.207000,Twin.Peaks.S03E12.Part.12.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3559.222000,Twin.Peaks.S03E13.Part.13.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3375.872000,Twin.Peaks.S03E14.Part.14.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3309.056000,Twin.Peaks.S03E15.Part.15.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3467.964000,Twin.Peaks.S03E16.Part.16.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3564.394000,Twin.Peaks.S03E17.Part.17.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv
3430.432000,Twin.Peaks.S03E18.Part.18.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-NOGRP.mkv