Episodes out of order when ripping a TV Show
Episodes out of order when ripping a TV Show
Is there a better way to have makemkv give better titles when saving episodes from a TV show. I have export mode on and see where I can create custom titles but Im not sure how to edit it. For example right now makemkv is naming a file like this THE BIG BANG THEORY SEASON 5 DISC 1_t04. This is not the 4th episode of the season though. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Re: Episodes out of order when ripping a TV Show
MakeMKV doesn't really know anything about the contents of a disc. It just knows what it can from reading the structure of the disc.
The _t04 or whatever that is appended on the end is just something MakeMKV does to try to make every title on the disc unique. It appends that incrementing item based on the order it encounters things on the disc. On the Video tab of MakeMKV's preferences, there's a minimum title length item. If you change that setting, MakeMKV will present more or less items in the GUI and which title gets _t04 appended to it will change.
Sometimes places like DVDCompare.net will have good details about something like The Big Bang Theory, Season 5 and sometimes they won't. When they do you can often use the exact length of an episode to know which is which.
Some shows are helpfully titled in the episode. For instance, every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is titled right after the opening titles play in every episode. Tools like mkvpropedit, part of the MKVToolNix tools, can help you rename things properly after the fact.
Some shows are a lot of work because there's no good data on them on the internet it seems. In those cases, I often use the combination of writers and the director from the credits in the show to figure out which episode is which. Wikipedia often has that information listed for every episode of a TV show.
The _t04 or whatever that is appended on the end is just something MakeMKV does to try to make every title on the disc unique. It appends that incrementing item based on the order it encounters things on the disc. On the Video tab of MakeMKV's preferences, there's a minimum title length item. If you change that setting, MakeMKV will present more or less items in the GUI and which title gets _t04 appended to it will change.
Sometimes places like DVDCompare.net will have good details about something like The Big Bang Theory, Season 5 and sometimes they won't. When they do you can often use the exact length of an episode to know which is which.
Some shows are helpfully titled in the episode. For instance, every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is titled right after the opening titles play in every episode. Tools like mkvpropedit, part of the MKVToolNix tools, can help you rename things properly after the fact.
Some shows are a lot of work because there's no good data on them on the internet it seems. In those cases, I often use the combination of writers and the director from the credits in the show to figure out which episode is which. Wikipedia often has that information listed for every episode of a TV show.
Re: Episodes out of order when ripping a TV Show
Thanks for the info. Just a thought but if the disk has it, would having makemkv burn the file with all the episodes in it and then using (I can't remember the name of the program) to split that file in to individual files work out better? Sorry I can't give a better description so I hope you know what I am trying to reefer to.
Re: Episodes out of order when ripping a TV Show
MKVToolNix is the tool you're thinking of.
And, yeah, maybe. You'd still have to name the resulting files correctly.
If the TV Show in question is on blu-ray, if you find a Play-All title on the disc, it will undoubtedly have a segment map that is the ordered list of episodes on the disc. For example, if the Play-All title on the disc has a segment map of 8,9,10,21 then whatever other title on the disc has a segment map of 8 is the first episode on the disc. 9 is the second episode and so on. If you make a decrypted backup of the disc first (icon of the yellow folder with the green arrow on MakeMKV's first screen), there will be a .m2ts file that corresponds to segment map numbers in the <backup>/BDMV/STREAM/ folder. So, in the example above, you could open 00008.m2ts with VLC (or whatever you like) and verify that it is the first episode. Once you make a backup of a disc with MakeMKV, you can open that backup in MakeMKV and create individual .mkv files just like you were reading them from the disc directly.
And, yeah, maybe. You'd still have to name the resulting files correctly.
If the TV Show in question is on blu-ray, if you find a Play-All title on the disc, it will undoubtedly have a segment map that is the ordered list of episodes on the disc. For example, if the Play-All title on the disc has a segment map of 8,9,10,21 then whatever other title on the disc has a segment map of 8 is the first episode on the disc. 9 is the second episode and so on. If you make a decrypted backup of the disc first (icon of the yellow folder with the green arrow on MakeMKV's first screen), there will be a .m2ts file that corresponds to segment map numbers in the <backup>/BDMV/STREAM/ folder. So, in the example above, you could open 00008.m2ts with VLC (or whatever you like) and verify that it is the first episode. Once you make a backup of a disc with MakeMKV, you can open that backup in MakeMKV and create individual .mkv files just like you were reading them from the disc directly.