Naming DVD Extras

[Scottes]

What is the proper way to name DVD Extras for Boxee Box?

For instance, my Toy Story DVD has a few extra films - such as the Academy Award-winning short "Tin Toy" - that I ripped and would like to have these identified by Boxee.

The Pixar Shorts Collection is even worse, since it has 13 different shorts on it.


Ideally I'd like to get NFO data for this stuff. I can create it by hand, if absolutely necessary, but that would be a lot of work so I'd rather have some program automatically find the data. Ember is not recognizing it - though I might not have named the AVI files correctly.


Also, where should the AVI files go? In the subdirectory with the movie?

[kr1z]

Officially its not (yet) supported.

But you can try :

Folder name: Predator (1987)
in this folder i put 2 or more folders:
Folder 1 name: A
Folder 2 name: B
In folder A i put the movie , named Predator.(1987).mkv
In folder B i put the bonusvid , also named Predator.(1987).mkv

After scan go to moviewall and klik on predator.
In the playwindow you can see 2 files now.

[LewisFamily01]

What is the proper way to name DVD Extras for Boxee Box?

For instance, my Toy Story DVD has a few extra films - such as the Academy Award-winning short "Tin Toy" - that I ripped and would like to have these identified by Boxee.

The Pixar Shorts Collection is even worse, since it has 13 different shorts on it.


Ideally I'd like to get NFO data for this stuff. I can create it by hand, if absolutely necessary, but that would be a lot of work so I'd rather have some program automatically find the data. Ember is not recognizing it - though I might not have named the AVI files correctly.


Also, where should the AVI files go? In the subdirectory with the movie?

As it happened I happened to use Ember last night on exactly the same Pixar short films as you mention, and they all got recognised perfectly and I now have .NFOs created. Previously I let Boxee srape them itself, but it was very hit and miss on identifying them.

The choice depends on how you want to access them. if you want to access them as associated with the main movie, then the previous suggestion by Kr1z makes sense (its what I do when I have both a 3D and a non-3D version of files to watch on different TVs).

However I prefer to have the "Mini"s visible as Movies in their own right, so giving them their own sub-directory and allowing Boxee (or Ember now) to scrape is my preference.

...Peter

[Scottes]

As it happened I happened to use Ember last night on exactly the same Pixar short films as you mention, and they all got recognised perfectly and I now have .NFOs created.

Did you rip them from ISO, or were they already named? If you ripped them, how did you name them so they'd get recognized?

When I open the ISO with handbrake, it finds 43 titles, and wants to convert them all to "pixar.m4v"

Is there a program that would make this type of thing easy? Something that will identify the ISO, or prompt me for the name of the DVD disk, and then identify each of the short videos inside and name them properly? (Free software is not necessary.)

And the Pixar DVD is just one example. I have many DVDs with extra films that I'd like to save.

[LewisFamily01]

Did you rip them from ISO, or were they already named? If you ripped them, how did you name them so they'd get recognized?

Unfortunately in my case, they had already been ripped and were in separate files. The only thing I had to do was correct the naming as they were just named something like File1, File2 or something, no meaningful names.

But like I said, even when I had renamed them, Boxee couldn't manage to identify them all itself. Hence why I have .NFO'ed them now.

...Peter

[Scottes]

Ok. Thanks!

[sadcaper]

Officially its not (yet) supported.

But you can try :

Folder name: Predator (1987)
in this folder i put 2 or more folders:
Folder 1 name: A
Folder 2 name: B
In folder A i put the movie , named Predator.(1987).mkv
In folder B i put the bonusvid , also named Predator.(1987).mkv

After scan go to moviewall and klik on predator.
In the playwindow you can see 2 files now.

I like this method. However, if you have multiple Extras on the DVD how do you know what is what? For instance, 40 year old virgin has like 5 "gag reel" type of extras. Is there a way to determine what video is what besides just trying them?

[yoos]

I do this method too, and it works as long as the movie is in boxees database. If it isn't and you use and nfo then movies don't stack like this correctly if they are iso's. It instead puts 2 iso's as one file where you can't select the one you want to watch, which makes no sense for iso's.

To answer your question of knowing what to select, you have to look at the file name, and name them accordingly, and maybe wait for it to scroll so you can see enough of the file to choose the right one... So the files would be named like this for example, each within their own folder of the same name as the file:

(I put whatever after the year and that always worked, again though...as long as the movie is in Boxee's database)

The.40.Year.Old.Virgin.(2005).Main.Movie.iso
The.40.Year.Old.Virgin.(2005).Extras.About.ABC.iso
The.40.Year.Old.Virgin.(2005).Extras.About.DEF.iso
The.40.Year.Old.Virgin.(2005).Extras.About.GHI.iso