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Stan about your question of ripping a disc of TV episodes. I had been ripping a few discs yesterday and took a screen cap for you, so what you see below is what I get right after a rip from MakeMKV. So as I said and Dave said, you have to manually name each episode.

Dave, I had a look at your HTPC thread, that’s quite a build! I’m still going over it, it’s very technically advanced! And you really use a lot of different applications to rip, but I know you mentioned quite a few of them.

Hi Stan, I was totally new to this too when I was curious to try this. The guys here were very helpful. What I learned to do involves a few steps. 1. You need software to rip your discs and if you have blu rays, you need a blu ray drive. What I use is MakeMKV. It is free for a 30 day trial...

Hi Mike, thanks for your insights! I can understand the need to take your precautions with material that’s irreplaceable. So your process of having two drives with the same data makes sense. my initial thought for back-up was similar, to have extra drives that backs up the primary drives.

Hi Robert! Never expected to see you here. Backing up files is a concern I have, I feel like I’ve been skirting disaster for some time. If something goes bad, I still have all the discs to re-rip the film or TV show. With the number of files and the sizes of all the files, I’m thinking...

Hey guys, I have a question about ripping the 2004 Battlestar Galactica blu rays. I just started ripping them, I did the first three discs of the first season. I’m finding that there are two copies of each episode. I can’t tell if there is any difference. The file sizes are the same and the...

Good news Rodney, thanks!

Rodney, FYI, I did re-number the Space: 1999 episodes based on the episode numbers used on the DVD and blu rays. Then in Plex, for episode ordering, I used the setting for DVD and now it shows the episodes in production order with the correct episodes. Now I learned a new technique for episode...

Thanks Rodney! I think I understand what you’re saying. I was afraid I’d need to re-label the episodes per the order I want it to make the order correct.

Plex question for Josh and others. I just completed ripping the first season of Space: 1999 from the Via Vision Imprint Ultimate Edition blu ray set. That set orders the episode per production order, but the Movie Database and other online database site shows the series in broadcast order. So...

Thanks Rodney, that’s good to know. My Mac is too old to run Ventura, but when I upgrade, this will be kept in mind.

FYI, I finally had time today to sort out Close Encounters of the Third Kind and got the 1977, 80 and 98 versions separated. I think it was harder to make sure I had the right version based on their lengths so I could correctly title them. Thanks again for the help! Josh, glad to hear your new...

Hey Dave, thanks. I’m sure I’ll be able to separate these 3 versions! I’ll follow Josh’s suggestions above. Now that I think about it, I must have done it before because I managed to separate Alien theatrical and Directors Cut. Also did it for Aliens. I think I just totally forgot how. I’ll...

Hey Josh, thanks for the speedy reply! I’ll give your suggestions a try. Also, I found there are two versions of each version of CEOTTK. The file sizes and running times the same. I am guessing maybe one version has alternate languages? .

Guys, I just ripped the 2017 Blu ray of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Checking the times of the files, I was able to determine which was the 1977 version, the 1980 Special Edition, and the 1998 Directors Cut. I tried to set up folders for the 1977, 1980 and 1998 version. Of course only the...

Greg, thanks for the link to your post about Pioneer drives in Macs. Great to hear you can do UHD discs fine. The one I have is an internal drive mounted inside my Mac Pro. So if I ever have to remove the drive, I might have to find an enclosure to install it in for external use. Or get an...

Guys, thought I’d post about my experience with another copy of Remington Steele Season 2 DVD. I bought a used copy on eBay, this set is different from my first set. The season set I originally have is one Amaray case that holds all four discs. The used copy I just got is a cardboard sleeve with...

Hey Josh, I hope the next set I get won’t have failed! As Mark said, I better get going to make copies of these discs before it’s too late!

Thanks for the info Mark about UHD ripper. I was curious about how to downconvert a UHD file to a lower HD resolution. I’ll give that some consideration.

On another type of disc, I thought I’d post about an experience trying to rip an older DVD of Remington Steele. I was able to make MKV files of the first season. I tried to make MKV files of the first disc of the second season. The first episode failed while the renaming episodes on the disc...

Thanks for posting Mark about your experience doing a UHD disc. This is really good info! Since you‘re running Windows, I’m curious to do the same on my Macintosh. As I mentioned earlier, I also have a Pioneer drive, so I can see how that works. I’ll post when I try out a UHD disc.

Josh, Mark, I finally picked up Conquest of Space and I just did a rip with MakeMKV. I had success and was able to make an MKV file. So the common thread perhaps is the Pioneer drive. It’s not the operating system as I’m using a Mac Pro. It is an older Mac Pro running 10.13.6 High Sierra. I...

Hey Mark, I see you use a Pioneer drive, I am using a Pioneer internal BD drive in my Mac Pro. Now I’m curious if the drive is a factor here. I have not ordered Conquest of Space yet. I’m curious to gent this disc and give it a try in my drive.

Hey Josh, I wasn’t aware of that release. I have the Australian Imprint release of When Worlds Collide and MakeMKV worked on that disc. Sorry to hear you’re having trouble. I’m now curious to try Conquest of Space for another George Pal title and be one of the 76 people. I was also surprised...

FYI, I edited the Plex library settings after changing the drive name for my first media drive. It took a few minutes for Plex to update all the files. It’s working now. Next I’ll populate the second drive with files and add that drive to Plex. This is great! Thanks for the input. Easy as Cake...

Thanks Greg! I’ll give this a shot at editing the library settings. :)

Hey Josh, thanks for the reply. I think you get the award to having the foresight to know you’d be adding more drives! I being a newbie wasn’t sure how far I’d take this. Ok, I’ll attempt to change the drive name and see about remapping the drive location and see what happens. I’ll let you know...

Guys, I just took the next step and added the second hard drive into my Mac Pro for Plex. I’m doing some reading on doing this, but I wanted to check with you guys, specifically Josh as he’s the Mac user. :) I think I need to get into the settings for Plex to assign this new drive for Plex...

Thanks a lot for the input guys! I’ll be reading up your links. I did look at one article on setting up a Synology last night. And it reminded me of Josh’s solution. I’d forgotten about the option of using a Mac Mini as I too would like to stay in the Mac world. So that’s an option. If I wanted...

Guys, my Mac Pro is having a kernel panic issue, I’m still trying to trouble shoot what the cause is. It won’t boot, starts up and then I see a window that says it has encountered a problem and restarts. In the mean time, my Plex server is down now. It’s interesting that I’ve become quite...