Help Ripping TV Series

[fordprefect138]

I'm trying to rip one of my Naruto box sets to create individual episodes. My ultimate goal is to run each episode through Handbrake. I've done this quite a few times before with other TV series. But the Naruto box set discs are compiled very weird. Every other TV series I've ever seen consisted of a single title per episode. So if there's 5 episodes per DVD, there would be a least 5 titles. This makes it very easy to rip out the individual episodes.

The problem with the Naruto box set is there is a single title and all the episodes are under that title with separate chapters. I'm trying to find out how I can tell where each episode starts and ends. I know I can tell Handbrake to create an mkv out of certain chapters, but I need to know how I can figure out where the episodes start and stop.

Anyone have any ideas on this one?

[SLK001]

Use SMARTRIPPER to extract the individual chapters/episodes into elementry streams (.mv2 and .ac3 or .pcm).

[txporter]

Have you tried just ripping the entire folder structure to your hard drive and then opening in Handbrake? I haven't had any trouble with episodic discs where all the programs were within 1 VTS tree. You could also rip everything to HDD and use something like VideoRedo to pull them apart and save as .mpg. You could then feed those into Handbrake. But really, I think opening directly in Handbrake should work fine.

[lowellriggsiam]

I have had no trouble using dvddecrypter -> iso then opening the iso uisng fairusewizard to convert to individual episodes, this should be doable with Handbreak as suggested. Are you saying that the Naruto episodes are strung together as if the episodes were one film?

[manono]

Are you saying that the Naruto episodes are strung together as if the episodes were one film?

Yes, that's what he's saying. They're all in the same Title and same VTS. I don't use Handbrake, so I don't know it it accepts ISO input.

I'd suggest doing the entire thing at once and splitting afterwards. There are 2 benefits to doing it this way. One is you'll get even quality over all the episodes where encoding to all the same size (175 MB or whatever) may give you wildly varying quality among the episodes. The other is subs. If hardcoding the subs you won't have any subtitle problems, where if encoding the episodes separately the chances are good you'll have a helluva time getting synched subs for all the episodes after the first one.

However, there are several ways to split the episodes yourself before sending them to Handbrake. One is to decrypt the correct number of chapters per episode using DVD Decrypter set up in IFO Mode. Another is, with the entire DVD on the hard drive, splitting by episodes using DVD Shrink in Reauthor Mode, before sending the individual episodes to Handbrake for encoding.

I know I can tell Handbrake to create an mkv out of certain chapters, but I need to know how I can figure out where the episodes start and stop.

If you know the total number of chapters and the total number of episodes, it's dead simple. For example, with 4 episodes spread among 20 chapters, each episode consists of 5 chapters. If there's one extra chapter (21 for this example), just ignore that last one.

[lowellriggsiam]

Okay this is a round about method. If you convert the whole thing to divx using the iso to divx using fairusewizard you could then use virtualdub and set it's video output to "direct stream" and then set it's in points and it's out points on either side of the start and stop of each episode you could output them as individual episodes.

[freebird73717]

Anyone have any ideas on this one?

The answer is 42.















I'm sorry I just couldn't help it!

So long and thanks for all the fish.....

[cal_tony]

What I would do is rip the disks to my hard disk and preview them with a video player( I use WinDVD v.4)and click thru the disk by chapters. Usually the different episodes would be separated by a chapter break. Then run it thru DVD shrink and separate each episode out with the info you obtained from the player and give each episode it's own title.

Then do whatever you would normally do.

Tony

[cbdude]

AOA DVD Ripper - does batch conversions and allows the individual conversion of chapters or custom time segments.

At present is the converter of choice for me.

c.

Oh yeah - tell Startybartfast I said Frogs
- I just heard the sound of a thousand ppl going WOP

[craigarta]

Your best and easiest options are Smart Ripper (I'm doing that with the Dark Shadows Series)
or use Fair Use Wizard and see if it gets each episode or you can select each chapter as well after it does its analysis of the disc.
would go the Smart Ripper method if you really want to use Handbrake.