Handbrake CLI looping through TV episodes on DVD ISO

[stealthrt]

HandBrake 1.4.1
Windows 10 20H2 x64
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Hey all I am trying to figure out how to go about using the Handbrake CLI tool to get the different episodes/titles/chapters from my ISO DVD. I can see them in the handbrake GUI and all but I am wanting to automate so that I don't have to keep renaming each episode before it can encode it. Currently it just tells me that it will have the same name as all the other files







Even when I tell it to rename each file by its title and it's chapter name:



So this is why I want to get this same functionality but using the CLI instead. However, I am not really seeing where I can use a loop to get each chapter, encode it, then move to the next chapter and do the same thing.

Looking at the documentation I can see it has a place with the chapter listings:

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Source Options
---------------------------------------------------------------

   -i, --input <string>Set input file or device ("source")    -t,
  --title <number>     Select a title to encode (0 to scan all titles
                       only, default: 1)
   --min-duration      Set the minimum title duration (in seconds).
                       Shorter titles will be ignored (default: 10).
   --scan              Scan selected title only.
   --main-feature      Detect and select the main feature title.    -c, --chapters <string> Select chapters (e.g. "1-3" for chapters
                       1 to 3 or "3" for chapter 3 only,
                       default: all chapters)
   --angle <number>    Select the video angle (DVD or Blu-ray only)
   --previews <number:boolean>
                       Select how many preview images are generated,
                       and whether to store to disk (0 or 1).
                       (default: 10:0)  
   --start-at-preview <number>
                       Start encoding at a given preview.    
   --start-at <string:number>
                       Start encoding at a given offset in seconds,
                       frames, or pts (on a 90kHz clock)
                       (e.g. seconds:10, frames:300, pts:900000).
                       Units must match 
   --stop-at units, if specified.    
   --stop-at  <string:number>
                       Stop encoding after a given duration in seconds,
                       frames, or pts (on a 90kHz clock) has passed
                       (e.g. seconds:10, frames:300, pts:900000).
                       Duration is relative to 
   --start-at, if specified.
                       Units must match 
   --start-at units, if specified.

And using this command:

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handbrakecli.exe -i "V:\shows\A SERIES\A SERIES VOLUME 1\A_SERIES_DISC1.iso" -t 0

I get ALOT of data but mainly I want to find how many chapters it has and it does display that within the plethora of data it spits out:

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 + chapters:
    + 1: duration 00:22:20
    + 2: duration 00:22:21
    + 3: duration 00:22:24
    + 4: duration 00:22:17
    + 5: duration 00:22:19
    + 6: duration 00:22:24
    + 7: duration 00:22:16

And that is where I am stuck at. I'm not sure of the command to get each of those titles individually and encode them and just keep looking until it reaches the end.

[Woodstock]

Not all DVDs are mastered the same. Even within a series, the number of titles and chapters per title can vary widely. A series like the anime Bleach, which has 366 episodes spread over 90+ DVDs, used at least 4 different layouts over the releases of disk sets, differing in number of episodes per title, chapters per episode, and even including "single episodes per title" and "multiple episodes per title" on a single disk.

Automating that in a generalized manner will be a daunting task.

There are other tools available that can do the "splitting" portion for you, then you can deal with a simpler automation of the encoding.

[stealthrt]

thanks for the info, Woodstock.