Are there any automatic or semiautomatic tools that will rip a set of DVDs from a tv show, and label the resulting vids (like Show name - s##e## or similar)?

I want to digitize entire series (of DVDs I own) for an in-home streaming server, and it’s super annoying to name each file individually.

  • mammut@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I don’t think it will do this, will it? The guide on the A.R.M. website says that it just rips all the titles from DVDs that contain TV shows, and they suggest using FileBot to rename these files afterward.

    • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      So? You’d refuse to use a tool that does most of the work because you don’t wanna use the tool that does the rest?

      • mammut@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        It’s still a manual process even with FileBot, though. I guess you could argue that is semiautomatic, but, for a lot of discs, it’s not a hell of a lot easier than doing it manually. You still have to manually look up the show name, manually figure out which episode is in each file, manually split the video file if it has more than one episode in it, manually merge the episode if it’s spread across multiple files, etc.

        My complaint isn’t that it requires using more than one program. My complaint is ARM, even with FileBot, isn’t really a solution. The problem is that there isn’t really a solution. Ripping DVDs is just a crappy process with a lot of manual work involved.

        • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          I’m not sure there even exists a way to fully automated it, as that would require automatically identifying the relevant tracks/files and looking up the metadata. I’m not sure there is such a database.