I'm ripping the Band of Brothers series and am wondering what is the best way to do it. I am using MakeMKV to rip into a folder named Band of Brothers. Each disc has two episodes on it so I end up with two files named title00.mkv and title01.mkv. What I've dome so far is to then rename each file to the name of the episode (e.g. title00.mvk on disc 1 became Currahee.mkv. I use XBMC to watch the movies and I want to ensure that it will get the correct information about the series from IMDB or whatever XBMC is using.

Does anyone have a better way of doing this or can you confirm that what I'm doing will work?

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So it sounds like MakeMKV is creating an mkv for each episode which is what I would recommend to do as well. If you wanted to encode I would suggest using Handbrake (I use MakeMKV when I don't want to encode and Handbrake when I do for all my tv shows). Then you want to set up the following structure:

BAND OF BROTHERS (Top level folder)
SEASON ONE (Sub folder)

In the Season One folder you then want to put in each mkv. FOr greatest accuracy label each mkv as such:

ShowName - S##E## - EpisodeName

S = Season and E = Epsiode

So as an example, episode one for season one would be labeled:

Band Of Brothers - S01E01 - Currahee
Band Of Brothers - S01E02 - Day of Days
....

With that you should hit jackpot with XBMC. For a list of each episode # and name, look here - http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seri ... 7109&lid=7

Hope this helps, let me know.

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Thanks Damian.

That's closer but still not right. What I have now is a shot of the opening scene (I guess that's what it is) for each episode instead of the "poster" art for the series. Does case in the folder and file names matter? I have been entering them in mixed case but I noticed your example was all upper case.

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Case shouldn't matter. Your band of brothers tv episodes are in a separate TV Shows folder, correct (i.e. they are not mixed in with your movie folders)? Assuming you have a separate TV show folder did you set up the scraper for that folder in XBMC?

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Currently they are in the Videos folder. Apparently they should be in the TV Shows folder. I'll move them and see what happens.

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Yes, you need a separate TV Shows folder, and the set the scraper up for that folder separately

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Here is a screenshot of my TV Shows scraper set up (I use TheTVDB)

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Do you use the default Recorded TV folder or did you create one like TV Shows?

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In my Videos Share folder I have the following folders:

Movies HD
Movies SD
Family Movies
TV Shows

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Bingo! That's done the trick. Thanks Damian for the quick and accurate answers.

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Would you also use makemkv and handbrake if ripping a TV series from Blu-ray?

Yes, MakeMKV if you dont want to encode, handbrake (or Ripbot) if you do

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Ah, okay, I think I understand. I don't want to re-encode anything I rip, I want the original pristine picture and audio!

Yup, just check the boxes for each episode, and you should an mkv of each episode waiting for you in minutes:

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Good deal!

So, the only advantage of Clown_BD then is that it lets you select which audio tracks you want or any audio transcoding options for the output file?