DVD rip episodic disc

dannyjo22 · 14 Jul 2014 at 19:04

I'm trying to rip my sons clone wars dvd tv series for his ipad. I have done this with a few films using handbrake. When I rip a tv series it will do it but doesn't maintain the episodes but rips it as one long file with all the episodes playing one after another.

Anyone have a decent way of doing this so I can select individial episodes?

I also have clone dvd and anydvd.

cokecan · 14 Jul 2014 at 19:09

Some DVD's contain a single track with all the eps in that. I've recently found this with a DVD I've ripped.

I used MakeMKV to rip mine as an uncompressed MKV then used MKVMerge GUI that's part of the MKVToolnix toolkit to simply split them into separate uncompressed MKV files based on timecodes. It means finding the timecodes by skipping through the ep in a media player but it's not too time consuming

dannyjo22 · 14 Jul 2014 at 19:17

Thanks for the reply, yeah that seems a bit time consuming for me, especially as I was hoping to do them tonight for a flight

stopper · 14 Jul 2014 at 20:17

cokecan said:
Some DVD's contain a single track with all the eps in that. I've recently found this with a DVD I've ripped.

I used MakeMKV to rip mine as an uncompressed MKV then used MKVMerge GUI that's part of the MKVToolnix toolkit to simply split them into separate uncompressed MKV files based on timecodes. It means finding the timecodes by skipping through the ep in a media player but it's not too time consuming

The timestamps are already on the DVD, IIRC they are contained in the IFO file.
DVD decrypter can read that file and rip each episode to it's own movie.

stopper · 14 Jul 2014 at 20:47

I created a quick video for you.

cokecan · 14 Jul 2014 at 21:34

That's awesome!

Though I'm afraid it doesn't work with the DVD's I'm currently ripping. I'm ripping Dragonball Z and even with your guide it still shows 1 single track that's over 2 hours long (this will contain 7 episodes). It must just be the way the DVD was authored originally

stopper · 14 Jul 2014 at 21:50

Are you sure?
In my video it shows the whole dvd as one long file at track 1, and tracks 2 to 6 are the episodes, which you can extract them 1 at a time.
Is it not the same for you?

cokecan · 15 Jul 2014 at 10:17

Very sure. I can expand the correct VTS track but it doesn't show multiple episodes like your video. Instead just the one large 2+ hour track with lots of chapters.

Other TV show DVD's and Blurays I've ripped have been fine and showed individual tracks in MakeMKV (I suspect this is doing the same thing as DVD Decrypter) but this one TV show always shows as a single large track

stopper · 15 Jul 2014 at 15:14

That is the first I've seen/known of that.
If I had come across it before I'm sure I would have searched for a solution, but as it is I haven't, so can't help you with that one.

cokecan · 15 Jul 2014 at 15:44

I'll get some screenies tonight of it. It's also the first one I've come across too

It's not a huge issue as mkvmerge does split them pretty easily, and now that I've worked out the timings of each ep I just need to double check they're accurate before splitting. Sometimes an ep might be a second or 2 out

Tomsk · 15 Jul 2014 at 22:52

dannyjo22 said:
Thanks for the reply, yeah that seems a bit time consuming for me, especially as I was hoping to do them tonight for a flight

Maybe too late, but (using handbrake) you might be able to select the episodes by selecting the start and end chapters.

lurkio · 17 Jul 2014 at 20:59

Tomsk said:
Maybe too late, but (using handbrake) you might be able to select the episodes by selecting the start and end chapters.

+1
rip
Then load into handbrake to select the single eps within the dvd , add each one
to the batch scheduler and run it

Nanobot · 20 Jul 2014 at 11:59

I'm sure Handbrake does let you choose individual episodes too?
Click on the Title drop down list, does it not show individual 40 minute tracks - unless it has been changed in the latest version?

Tomsk · 20 Jul 2014 at 15:54

Nanobot said:
I'm sure Handbrake does let you choose individual episodes too?
Click on the Title drop down list, does it not show individual 40 minute tracks - unless it has been changed in the latest version?

It depends on the DVD.
I've had DVDs from boxsets where with some HB does show each episode as separate titles and some where HB just shows one long title.