Adding DVDs to Plex in unraid

[Jcb93]

Hi all I was looking for advice on what Dockers to use and curious about adding tv/anime series from DVDs to my Plex server on unraid. What I was wondering is if anyone had a good way to do this my main thing is that I don't want it to be one big video but individual episodes. What I've see is most people suggest makemkv and then maybe handbrake to reduce size some depending on quality and such, but all I've seen is people talking about movies not tv shows with multiple episode per DVD. So I wanted to see if anyone who has done this with the series how they did it and if it ends up as just on file with all the episodes or individual episodes that I could then use sonar to add to Plex.

[Bombastinator]

There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between the title and the body of this post.  I’m not sure if this is about adding slow removable drives to a plex sever or about suggestions regarding adding and organizing multiple smaller files.

[tikker]

45 minutes ago, Jcb93 said:

what Dockers to use

I use the linuxserver.io Docker container for my Unraid Plex. Works like a charm.

 

50 minutes ago, Jcb93 said:

What I've see is most people suggest makemkv and then maybe handbrake to reduce size some depending on quality and such, but all I've seen is people talking about movies not tv shows with multiple episode per DVD.

From some looking around it seems MakeMKV will present the option to select and rip the episodes as separate. I'd say just fire it up and see what options you have?

[CerealExperimentsLain]

37 minutes ago, tikker said:

From some looking around it seems MakeMKV will present the option to select and rip the episodes as separate. I'd say just fire it up and see what options you have?

This is not entirely true, MakeMKV will let you rip individual titles but not all series BDs and DVDs separate the episodes by title, and instead they are in one big title and MakeMKV can only make one large MKV that contains many episodes.  This def varies by disk.  What I do for those is remux them to one big MKV with MakeMKV, then I use MKVToolNix to cut that MKV into individual episodes by chapter.  This means finding the chapters that are the start of each episode and teling MKVToolNix to cut before each chapter number I enter.

[Blue4130]

I recently did it with two tv  shows that I had on dvd. I used Handbrake. It let me rip each episode as a single file.