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TV Show ripping is a pain, there needs to be a database of information on DVDs and how the episodes are placed on them or at least tvdb could start having the video run time so that it could be guessed a little easier.
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Yep but that info could be different in different markets and also different timing between pal and ntsc versions. It does get annoying and spoilerish to have to watch the dvd to see which episode is what.
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2014-11-21, 23:14
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-21, 23:14 by Piers.)
People use Handbrake?
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2014-11-21, 23:49
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-21, 23:51 by Pr.Sinister.)
Is there a reason why you guys don't use Sonarr (formerly NZBDrone) or SickBeard for this?
They will both rename and move your TV Shows automatically to their proper locations...
Unless i am not understanding what you mean by Media Organizer...
And when you say duplicates, duplicates of what? I can only think of duplicates for Music files but that is easily remedied with dupeGuru
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I hadn't thought of using sickbeard's renaming for stuff it hadn't downloaded. I'll look into that.
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(2014-11-23, 01:56)Piers Wrote: Handbrake is a horrible, horrible tool that produces mediocre video.
Really? I've used it a lot and it seems to do just fine, and it seems fairly well regarded by other people. It's basically just a GUI for a bunch of other open source libraries that are fairly standard for encoding. x264, libav, etc:
https://trac.handbrake.fr/browser/trunk/CREDITS
I typically don't use any settings that push the limits of what can be done, since I favor sticking with compatible settings, so maybe I'm missing out? I've never really thought to look into a critical review of HandBrake.
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2014-11-23, 06:18
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-23, 06:18 by Dalton63841.)
Some people apparently haven't looked into Handbrake's advanced settings. Handbrake will make excellent high quality rips, in scenarios where encoding is required. It does fail where the source is already using h264, when remuxing would be superior, but then, if you are using Handbrake for that, you are just doing it wrong.
For standard DVD's I use handbrake-cli. For remuxing I use ffmpeg. If you think you need more than that(beyond a GUI), then you are putting out far more work than you need to.
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So you wouldn't re-encode a bluray that is already in h264? (I know some people keep full rips, but some of us want some space saving).
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