How to separate episodes from .iso file

[neworldman]

I have full iso rips of some TV series that I would like to separate into separate files for each episode. I would like them not to be compressed to much and would like them to be .mvk or .avi or .iso again. What software do I need to make this happen? I tried HandBrake it only makes chapters doesn't separate the episodes in separate files.

[neworldman]

Well I found out that I can do this with DVD Shrink. But it takes a long time. Is there any software that will select the whole dvd iso file and separate every episode automatically? I have over 400 episodes to do. Will take some time with DVD Shrink.

[netmask56]

Have you tried converting the ISO format to standard DVD AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders? Within the VIDEO_TS folder there will be a bunch of VOB files - if you are lucky and it depends on how the original was authored, each VOB just might be one episode. If that is the case you can convert them to MPEG or at a pinch simply rename them .mpg. Then you can turn each ep into mkv or leave them as MPEG files... worth a try but you still have a lt of work ahead of you for 400 titles. Personally I would leave them as MPEG so that there is no more encoding will will result in loss of quality. Not sure if you realise that separating them into separate files won't "de-compress" them. What you have is what you have and any further processing will degrade what you presently have apart from stripping them out as MPEG files from the ISO.

[olyteddy]

Mount the ISO with VirtualCloneDrive and use MakeMKV on the resulting virtual disk. That will cut them up into episodes consisting of the original MPEG2 VOB repackaged in an MKV container. Then you can run these as a batch through HandBrake if you'd like to save space by encoding them AVC or h.264.

[neworldman]

Mount the ISO with VirtualCloneDrive and use MakeMKV on the resulting virtual disk. That will cut them up into episodes consisting of the original MPEG2 VOB repackaged in an MKV container. Then you can run these as a batch through HandBrake if you'd like to save space by encoding them AVC or h.264.

Wow thank you...That worked awesome. Alot faster and easier the DVD Shrink. I will just leave the .mkv files uncompressed at about 1gb a episode. Fine with me.

[lowellriggsiam]

neworldman, you might also try opening the iso file with fairusewizard and outputting to h264 or avi.