HPR3294: Update to MakeMKV to back up media

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This is an update on my previous episode hpr3179 :: MakeMKV to back up media.

In the past month, MakeMKV.com has been updated to include Raspberry Pi support.

Sources:

• MakeMKV on Linux post
  https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224
• MakeMKV on ARM release
  https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=105912#p105912

It was a very uneventful "It's here"

MakeMV on Raspberry Pi (ARM)

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wget https://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv-bin-1.16.1.tar.gz wget https://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv-oss-1.16.1.tar.gz

Unpack both packages and starting from source package and do the following steps:

For makemkv-oss package:

./configure make sudo make install

For makemkv-bin package:

make sudo make install

Install ccextractor and necessary packages

sudo apt install libtesseract-dev autoconf sysconftool git clone https://github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor.git cd ccextractor/linux/ ./build

nnn: command line file browser with vim-like keybindings

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

Script to rip TV episodes

makemkv.tv.sh

#!/bin/bash #echo "Series?" series=Battlestar echo "Series: $series" echo "What Season is this?" read season echo "Season: $season" echo "Which disc # is this?" read disknum echo "This is disk #$disknum" echo "Starting with which episode?" read episode eject -x20 mkdir ""disc."$disknum" makemkvcon mkv --progress=-same --minlength=2100 disc:0 all ""disc."$disknum" cd ""disc."$disknum" #episode=1 episode=$episode for track in *.mkv do mv $track $series"_S"$season"_D"$disknum"_E"$episode.mkv episode=$((episode+1)) done cd ..

Script to convert multiple episodes

mkv2mkv_mult.sh

#!/bin/bash mkdir encoded for i in *.mkv do HandBrakeCLI --first-subtitle --subtitle-default=none -i $i -o "encoded"/"`basename -s .mkv $i`.mkv" done

Before and after the rename loop

Before rename

After rename