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Ripping a Movie that Has 2 DVD Discs
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:29 pm
by EddieK
I was ripping a handful of my own DVDs today with no issues. However, I have this DVD disc set called The Ten Commandments - 50th Anniversary Set'
I can rip the first disc and it works fine but the second disc gets ripped fine too except it will not appear on my Plex app or the Plex website. I did make sure the .mkv have distinctive names but it's not working.
Does anyone have an idea what I might be doing wrong?
Thank you.
Re: Ripping a Movie that Has 2 DVD Discs
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2021 11:24 pm
by Woodstock
Did you make sure the metadata name is different? MakeMKV can set them different if you know if advance that you need to do it, but you can edit the MKV header with the header editor in mkvtoolnix to make it unique as far as Plex (or other DLNA server) is concerned.
I don't use Plex, but both parts of this movie show up just find on my machines.
Re: Ripping a Movie that Has 2 DVD Discs
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:17 am
by EddieK
Thank you for responding. I did figure out that when using Plex it sometimes does not recognize some 2-disc movies and the work around is to name the movie with 'pt1.mkv' and 'pt2.mkv'. In my case, I named as follows:
The_Ten_Commandments_pt1.mkv
The_Ten_Commandments_pt2.mkv
Again, thank you for responding. Merry Christmas.
Re: Ripping a Movie that Has 2 DVD Discs
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:50 pm
by hart2hart
I don’t know how off top of my head using makemkv or related tool sets (mkvtoolnix) but i ripped 2 blurays to folders and joined the two playlists or transport streams into one file with tsmuxer before I started using makemkv.
Re: Ripping a Movie that Has 2 DVD Discs
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 12:53 am
by dcoke22
For completeness' sake, here's the link to the Plex support article for naming movies with multiple parts:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming ... dia-files/
Re: Ripping a Movie that Has 2 DVD Discs
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 3:49 am
by MartyMcNuts
EddieK wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:29 pm
I was ripping a handful of my own DVDs today with no issues. However, I have this DVD disc set called The Ten Commandments - 50th Anniversary Set'
I can rip the first disc and it works fine but the second disc gets ripped fine too except it will not appear on my Plex app or the Plex website. I did make sure the .mkv have distinctive names but it's not working.
Does anyone have an idea what I might be doing wrong?
Thank you.
Just use mkvtoolnix to merge both into a single mkv file.