duplicate removal removes all episodes on a DVD

[chrispitude]

Hi folks,

I'm a new user to Handbrake. I have a DVD box set for "The Red Green Show" where each DVD has eight show episodes on it. The files for the first DVD look like this:

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-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VIDEO_TS.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 123174912 Jan  6  2013 VTS_01_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup   4220928 Jan  6  2013 VTS_01_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_02_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup   3166208 Jan  6  2013 VTS_02_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_03_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup   1136640 Jan  6  2013 VTS_03_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_04_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup  72486912 Jan  6  2013 VTS_04_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_05_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 879628288 Jan  6  2013 VTS_05_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_06_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 874485760 Jan  6  2013 VTS_06_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_07_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 875612160 Jan  6  2013 VTS_07_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_08_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 876115968 Jan  6  2013 VTS_08_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_09_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 876341248 Jan  6  2013 VTS_09_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_10_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 863535104 Jan  6  2013 VTS_10_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_11_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 874766336 Jan  6  2013 VTS_11_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup    116736 Jan  6  2013 VTS_12_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 874774528 Jan  6  2013 VTS_12_1.VOB

The first several VOBs are menu/intro/etc. shorts. VTS_04_1.VOB is an introduction from one of the cast members, then VTS_05_1.VOB through VTS_12_1.VOB are the eight show episodes. I'm not sure what the *_0.VOB files are; all the content seems to be in the *_1.VOB files. (I know nothing of DVD file structure.)

When I point to this VIDEO_TS folder as the source and Add Multiple, I get the following dialog:



It considers everything to be a duplicate of the first title. In addition, the episodes appear to double up (note the pairs of identical times). I'm not sure why any of this is happening.

In any case, I decided to proceed to see what happens. I click Select All then OK, and I get a single queue entry:



What I wanted was nine separate encoded files - one for the intro, plus each episode. When I start encoding to see what happens, the Handbrake window disappears - presumably a crash.

Any suggestions? Activity log is at

http://pastebin.com/yuG0VRhS

I'm using HandBrake svn6599 for Ubuntu trusty from the PPA.

[JohnAStebbins]

1. Read more closely. "Duplicate destination files detected". You need up update the file names so that it doesn't try to write every title on the disc to the same output file. In preferences, you can modify the automatic destination file nameing schema to include title number. Or you can manually update each title right in the dialog you show in your post so that the output file names are unique.

2. DVDs often have multiple titles that are the same or very similar. Sometimes these are just slight variations on the content and sometimes they are deliberat attempts by the studio to obscure which title is the correct one.

[chrispitude]

Hi John,

You are correct! I mistakenly thought that the duplicate destination files were a result of the "doubling up" in episodes that I was getting. Sure enough, the two behaviors were independent, and I resolved the duplicate destination files by using "{source}_{title}" as the output file Auto-Name Template setting in Preferences.

This reveals another strange behavior. When I attempt to Add Multiple, I deselect all the duplicates in the duplicate pairs:



However, when I click OK to add the entries, it still adds all of them:



Is this expected? I'm currently running 6604svn (x86_64).

[JohnAStebbins]

No, that is not expected. And I can't reproduce that behavior.

[chrispitude]

Thanks for all your help, John. I posted a bug at

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=31372