DVDs on Hard Disk

[neilbradley]

I have a SageTV server with 6 terabytes of storage, three remote clients (all licensed) and currently a bit over 450 movies. Each movie is contained within the subdirectory named for the movie (e.g. "Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back"). I have pulled the discs off and placed all files in the movie's subdirectory (not under VIDEO_TS).

When I set the media center's import directory to point to the base of the DVD subdirectories, it will show up as a whole bunch of individual files, and not as individual DVDs.

I have taken the movie's name and put all files under VIDEO_TS (e.g. "Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back/VIDEO_TS", and it makes no difference.

However, if I point PowerDVD to the subdirectories, PowerDVD treats them just as any other DVD.

Am I expecting that SageTV will just pick up and treat it as a DVD? Currently it's not doing that. I've read the manual and it indicates that all I need to do is point the import directory at the base of the DVD subdirectories (and provided each has a VIDEO_TS subdirectory) and it'll do the rest, but instead I get the option of playing back, end to end, each individual VOB file on the DVD.

Any idea how to fix this? I'm running SageTV 6.0.11.1. Thanks!

[rtengvad]

Try to hit "refresh imported media" alt. also restart Sage. Sage can be a bit slow to find out if you have changed something. Then they should come up in imported videos under DVD's. But you have to have al the original files from the disc placed in the structure described in the manual.

I assume you have specified the folder, where you have "Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back" as a sub folder, as the import directory.

It should work

rtengvad

[tmiranda]

You also need to have an AUDIO_TS directory, even if it is empty.

[ChePazzo]

I'd be curious to hear if the AUDIO_TS worked. I have ripped DVDs to my system and left the structure intact:

/videos/DVDs/The Empire Strikes Back

and Sage correctly identifies 'The Empire Strikes Back' as a DVD folder just like PowerDVD would.

I can even watch on my MVP with full menus. Very, very cool.

However, I have only tried with direct rips or authored home vids to a DVD folder, so I have always had the AUDIO_TS folder (empty).

[GbrNole]

i don't have any audio_ts folders in my structure only video_ts and it's never been a problem.

[tmiranda]

Strange, I never can get it to work without an AUDIO_TS folder. Curiouser and curiouser ....

[Narflex]

AUDIO_TS folders should have no impact whatsoever. SageTV doesn't look at them at all currently.

[neilbradley]

Thanks much, everyone. It appears creating a VIDEO_TS subdirectory is what did it for me (no AUDIO_TS folder). Bummer... now I've got to migrate all 445 DVDs to that structure again. Grr....

[lobosrul]

If you have a little bit of a programming background, you can probably write a vbscript to move everything for you.

Id snoop around there: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...nda/files.mspx

Of course, im assuming your not on linux.

[stanger89]

Or some tricky command lineing. Something like:

for /f "delims=" %i in ('dir /b') do mkdir "%i\VIDEO_TS"
for /f %i in ('dir /b') do move "%i\*.*" "%i\VIDEO_TS\"

As always, use at your own risk, I haven't tried it myself. Might want to try it with an 'echo' after the DO to see what commands it's going to try.

You'd run those from a command line, from the directory containing your DVD folders.

[neilbradley]

I do have a programming background (embedded systems!). It has been a while since I've done heavy batch file programming but I'll try it out. Thank you! I guess I'd be no worse off if things just get put in the wrong place.... Thanks!