Reliable Way to Determine "Episode Order" for TV Series Blu Ray Discs

[Skopin]

This method does seem to work for a vast majority of discs I have. I'm sure I will run into some that it will not work.
I'm now going to take this method and put it into a python script for automation.
MakeMKV CLI -< Output File -< Filebot (For Naming Episode)

What I did was I wrote up in a .json file the Season, Disc# and Episode Names for an entire show. I choose one that is only four seasons for easy testing. And I combined it into python. And I was able to get fully named episode files in a very automated way. For fun I wrote a way to get an email if the "Rip" failed. That way I can address it right away and not waste too much time.

Massive work in progress since the only downside is I have to manually create a .json file for the show.

But thank you so much for this info.

Edit: Quick question. You know when you load up a disc in a blu-ray player. You can choose an episode by its name. How can we access that information ? I would think that would solve all our problems.
Edit2: Nevermind. I found it, they are just .png files! Not good at all

Any chance you'd be willing to share that python script? I would love to be able to automate the discovery process, even if I have to do some manual work in creating a json file for the series. my current process is just to find transcripts of the episodes and watch a few seconds to line it up. Not very efficient lol.

[Berry]

Hello there,
as already mentioned before, this "mpls-thing" doesn't always seem to be the right way, since the order is different sometimes.

So I've got to ask if there's any method or software out there to find out the right order of episodes on a tv series Blu Ray Disc?
(doesn't matter if it costs money)
This really bothers me and prevents me from buying a lot of tv episodes / series on Blu Ray...

[seamus]

Hello there,
as already mentioned before, this "mpls-thing" doesn't always seem to be the right way, since the order is different sometimes.

So I've got to ask if there's any method or software out there to find out the right order of episodes on a tv series Blu Ray Disc?
(doesn't matter if it costs money)
This really bothers me and prevents me from buying a lot of tv episodes / series on Blu Ray...

It's the same with DVDs. And I'm with you - since Jellyfin requires "SXXEYY" for the file name, it's a major nuisance to have to watch episodes in VLC to try to figure this out. Especially true for TV series like "The X-Files" where they don't even announce the episode name in the video!

According to the author of MakeMKV (Mike/Konstatin??), this was "a pretty easy thing to do" 15 years ago. Hmmm ... wonder what happened? Too bad this project is not open source... I'm sure a lot of hands would be willing to help out with this sort of "enhancement".

[drxenos]

I've never had an issue with this. I just play each episode in PowerDVD and look at what MPLS is selected.

[ma3543]

It appears that DC's Legends of Tomorrow (Blu-ray) is confirmed to be in MPLS numerical order, at least Season 1:

Season 1 Disk 1 Seg Episode
t01 00055.mpls 107 5
t02 00054.mpls 106 4
t03 00053.mpls 105 3
t04 00052.mpls 090 2
t05 00051.mpls 104 1
t06 00056.mpls 110 6
t07 00057.mpls 111 7
t08 00058.mpls 112 8

Season 1 Disk 2
t01 00063.mpls 107 13
t02 00062.mpls 106 12
t03 00061.mpls 105 11
t04 00060.mpls 090 10
t05 00059.mpls 104 09
t06 00064.mpls 110 14
t07 00065.mpls 111 15
t08 00066.mpls 112 16