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hpr3294 :: Update to MakeMKV to back up media

Update to MakeMKV to back up media, now on Raspberry Pi

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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:

It was a very uneventful "It's here"

MakeMV on Raspberry Pi (ARM)
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
Before rename

After rename
After rename


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