[mythtv-users] TV-Series DVDs

[jedi at mishnet.org]

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>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: jedi at mishnet.org
>> >
>> > On Wed, October 31, 2007 7:30 pm, Kevin Hulse wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Have you tried looking at http://thetvdb.com ? They have a well
>> defined
>> >>> API with xml data returned. See http://thetvdb.com/?tab=xml
>> >>
>> >> 	Nope but thinks for the tip.
>> >>
>> >> 	My tv.com scraper already works well enough for my own purposes.
>> >
>> > have you shared it anywhere?
>>
>>      I posted it to one of the Forums on MythTVtalk the last time
>> this sort of subject came up over there. Since you have to prime
>> it with manually collected data (the series title -> series id
>> mapping), I view it as a bit half baked.
>>
>>      As far as ripping TV series goes, I don't know of any online
>> source for that particular data. I manually enter all of my metadata
>> for that. This is also complicated by the occasional DVD  or DVD set
>> that doesn't have proper disc names (like Highlander).
>
> Maybe a stupid question....
>
> But when ripping TV-Series DVDs are people breaking the episodes apart or
> are they leaving them in vob/avi files?

     Usually, different episodes will be in different vob files on
the disc as the individual episodes typically are each in their own
title. The same usually goes for feature films and special features
too. Each "work" is in it's own title and it's own set of vob files.

     vobs are split so as to avoid the 2G barrier with older
filesystems. Although you can trivially cat them together again
if you want your DVD title to be a single bigger file.

     Occasionally, either the first or the last title on the disk
will be a "play all" sort of title. This tends to be added in addition
to all of individual episode titles.