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So, I tried Makemkv and it worked very well. I like that it does not encode the video at all. I really want to keep video in it's purest form. The only problem is that WMC7 does not play mkv's natively and I do not want to install any codecs whatsoever. What is everyone doing these days to rip tv shows? I have PDVD installed and it plays them in WMC if I set it up in collection management, but it is really clunky, and Pdvd always opens on the wrong monitor. I could also just rip the dvd and use the episode mapping feature of collection management. Or I could rip to another format that W7MC plays natively, but which one? I really do not want to be altering the video quality, and don't hav that much time to play with options and long encoding times. I know, I want it all!  Any help would be appreciated. Anyone ever fool around with renaming the vob extension to .mpg?
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Don't know about anybody else, but I tend to rip to .avi as that way I can use them with the xbox360 without having to transcode them.
Also providing the episodes are named correctly and follow MM File structure Folder Monitoring picks them OK as well.
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What program do you use to rip and hows the quality from the original?
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I use DVDFab. Have done for years. Have a life time upgrade.
Personally can't tell the difference when played over network to the xbox.
Can't vouch for the Blu-ray Ripper as I don't have a Blue-ray drive in the PC (yet). But have no complaints as for the DVD Ripper part of the program.
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Never mind, thanks for the reply though. For anyone else that is new to this:
Watch the video tutorial on episode mapping in the MM How-to tab above. I ripped the tv dvd just like the recommended folder structure. Season name/season x/disc 1/audio&video_TS folder. This is not a watched folder. I added a DVD title (just like a movie) by punching in the name of the show, and selected the season. I selected "Add on-line" and mapped it to the "Season x" folder. MM automatically tags it as a tv media type. Go into the "Discs" icon, and for each disc on the left, map it to the "Disc 1" folder you originally created (or whatever folder the episodes are in).
You don't have to map each individual episode like in the video. I am assuming the users have been contributing this data. I am sure if you have a really obscure tv show you might have to actually go in and map each episode. Glad I found this. This is really what I was looking for.
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Quick update to my use of DVDFab.
I was using DVDFab long before I discovered My Movies.
And before I had access to Window Media Centre, was using a program called TVVersity before which although had built in transcoding similar to MM it was easier to convert to something the xbox could easily use.
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jimmysticky wrote:Never mind, thanks for the reply though. For anyone else that is new to this:
Watch the video tutorial on episode mapping in the MM How-to tab above. I ripped the tv dvd just like the recommended folder structure. Season name/season x/disc 1/audio&video_TS folder. This is not a watched folder. I added a DVD title (just like a movie) by punching in the name of the show, and selected the season. I selected "Add on-line" and mapped it to the "Season x" folder. MM automatically tags it as a tv media type. Go into the "Discs" icon, and for each disc on the left, map it to the "Disc 1" folder you originally created (or whatever folder the episodes are in).
You don't have to map each individual episode like in the video. I am assuming the users have been contributing this data. I am sure if you have a really obscure tv show you might have to actually go in and map each episode. Glad I found this. This is really what I was looking for.
Using avi's and folder monitoring your don't have to map the episodes. "Add Title" from the main menu - last tab = TV Series, enter the name of the TV Series - search. Once found add as Tiltle. In MM you then get a little blue TV Screen Icon against the name of the TV Series. Click against the "+" sign expands the TV Series to show all possible seasons the folder monitoring will then match your avi's against the downloaded known episodes. All you have to remember is to name them as to the file structure suggested for folder monitoring ie show name - SxxEyy where xx is the season number and yy is the episode in the season number, and if you want show name - SxxEyy - episode name then any time you add another episode to the folder structure it's automatically added into MM and prvided you have the TV Strip enabled in WMC it's added to there as well ready to run as soon as you select it and press play. Steve
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I always liked Handbrake.
MP4 plays on many different devices.
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jman206 wrote:I always liked Handbrake.
MP4 plays on many different devices. I'd like to know how you're using Handbrake to rip PROTECTED content? According to their website it can't do that. Steve
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binnerup wrote:If the episodes are mapped in our data service, My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 along with it's video converter can copy TV Series titles, and automatically create MP4 files per episode. Would/is it possible to convert each episode to an Mpeg? like you can when just ripping a Movie DVD, because when you rip a TV Series DVD it just converts one Mpeg and not individual episodes also Mpegs play nicely on Media Centre Extenders not so much with MP4 files Thanks for you work on a great product
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Is this still possible in version 5.2? I am currently using MyMovies on Windows Server Essentials 2012 with collection management on a Windows 10 box. I currently use Collection Management to look at the data service for a title to get the mappings to then manually rip them using handbrake as well as slysoft for the encryption, I then pass them over to FileBot for the naming to the correct format. I would love to be able to automatically rip all the movies to m4v format with their naming convention already done then if i have to just move the directories as I create a parent directory for the Series Name then put the seasons folders under that with the episodes inside there.
I would love to have the webservice back where i can write an API call to get the mappings for each disc and go that route but finding this it may work better.
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I don't know what you mean by still? This functionality has been a part of My Movies 5 since it was released as it incorporates all the functionality that was previously only in the server product.
You have resurrected a thread here that is almost 4 years old.
You seem to have posted this same general question in about 3 different places. There is no need for any of this complicated messing about, provided the relevant TV series data has been linked to the disc title and the disc structure read and the episodes mapped to the relevant titles in the structure and all that contributed correctly to the web service then sending the disc title to the video converter should automatically output the episodes as individual files in the chosen format set for the converter.
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I am sorry if i hijacked your thread, i did not mean any ill-intent. I have been using mymovies for about 3 years now, but have slowly gotten back into it, life got busy, kids, wife, all the fun stuff. I am trying now to get back into it further (i know sob story right). I am currently trying to convert tv shows, cartoons, etc over to mymovies database so that I can stream them around the house for my kids so that they do not destroy the discs. I saw what you were doing and thought that it was similiar to what I want to do specifically when you said
"Since learning that there's no way to change the file naming scheme used by the MM Video Converter on TV episodes, I've started using FileBot. I've used FB in the past for a number of similar problems, and was pleased to see it could handle the unconventional episode name format used by MM."
To me that says you are able to get MM to rip the episodes automatically to individual files, and was hoping maybe you could chime in.
I know I posted in a few other areas, but they were a few days apart, some were older threads, and I know as one Mod said it was 4 years old, but I was hoping the users could have assisted, since the how to ask for assistance says "And one last thing, don't forget the search option in the forums most questions are duplicates and with a little due dilegence you should be able to help yourself."
So I have been searching around, I have read the wiki's, and was hoping someone could have assisted more easily with their experiences.
I would like to say sorry again
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