TV Series DVD's

by **glamdring** on Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:45 pm

I need some advice on how to save the episodes onto my HD so I can build my TV database. Is there a good application to do this?

by **glamdring** on Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:05 pm

Anybody got a tip on this?

by **Myth** on Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:45 am

I created a TVSeries database, then used the the sub-items feature to create a structure like this

Code: Select all: Friends - Series Lost - Series The Simpsons - Series |->The Simpsons - Series 01 |->The Simpsons - Series 02 |->|-> stills |-> S2e01 - Episode 1 Title |-> S2e02 - Episode 2 Title |->Plot etc

my folders on the HD are structured the same.

Then, using Jowaldo's skin, I made a copy of all the Movie pages & events, and renamed them for TVSeries category.

It works well except for some minor problems ( see feature request http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3650 ,
&
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3614

regards
Myth

by **glamdring** on Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:25 pm

Thanks for the tip.

by **Myth** on Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:30 pm

Just hope it helps :wink:

Myth

by **glamdring** on Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:20 pm

myth,

What do you do about a DVD having all the episodes in one vob file? I have a couple series that split each episode into seperate files, but another is just one vob file. Any recommendations?

by **Myth** on Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:09 am

I suppose you could either use a program like dvdshrink to re-author the dvd, so that each iso image only had one episode, or a program like Dr DivX ( or equivalent xVid program ) to create individual *.avi episodes

Regards
Myth

by **Blake** on Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:22 am

Myth wrote:I suppose you could either use a program like dvdshrink to re-author the dvd, so that each iso image only had one episode, or a program like Dr DivX ( or equivalent xVid program ) to create individual *.avi episodes

Regards
Myth

This is what I currently do (individual XviD files), though I'm thinking about changing it. I just found Xlobby, but it's a pain to browse through files and directories when I could just as easily rip the whole DVD. It'd take more space, but probably be a lot easier to use with Xlobby.

by **Myth** on Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:40 am

Blake wrote: I just found Xlobby, but it's a pain to browse through files and directories when I could just as easily rip the whole DVD. It'd take more space, but probably be a lot easier to use with Xlobby.

Yes, it is a bit of a pain, esp in the setting up bit, which is why I put in a couple of feature requests (see http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3650 ,
&
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3614 .

Unfortunately Stephen has other things on his mind at the moment, and there hasnt been a lot of support for my requests from others
Myth