How to tell if a disc is a movie or TV show?

[Donny Bahama]

I can use minlength on a movie disc and if I set it to 3600, I pretty much only get 1 title, ever. But if the disc contains TV shows, they'll usually be 40-something minutes per episode -- but that's only for shows that have one hour (with commercials) episodes. For a show with 30 minute episodes, the length can be as little as 21 minutes. (Maybe even shorter, but I found one episode of Seinfeld that's 21:00.)

But if I set minlength to 20 minutes, there are bound to be plenty of movies with extras that are 20+ minutes. The one thing that comes to mind is to get a count of how many titles are 60+ minutes. If it's 1, it's a movie. If there are 3-5 titles that are at least 40 minutes long, obviously a TV show (with "1 hour" episodes)

Has anybody come up with a solution to this dilemma?

[Deleted User 11865]

Yes, look at the disc before inserting it in the drive

If you're looking to automate this, there's no easy way. Maybe divide your encoding sessions based on source type, movies then series or vice-versa?

[Donny Bahama]

Thanks for the response but yes, I'm trying to automate it. There has to be some way...

[Eelisland]

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