HELP - DVDFab with DVDMASSRIP

[realthinman]

MTX changer is supposed to operate the VGP-XL1b - I am just not good enough to figure it out. I D/l the windows version - cmd - path to the app then ? to see the expressions.

Not ready to abandon your script - but besides the other two obstacles, I cannot make it advance to the next disc.

I should have changer at home tomorrow for more testing.

[k1lv9h]

Hi,

My batch file does not have any idea how to change the dvd media in your library drive. I wrote the batch file as a interface for DVD MASS RIP program. To handle duplicate DVDFab output names.

FreeChng from Shizzle / MediaDogg

Interesting tool.

Freechng looks like it runs DVDFab directly.

Where you specified my batch file. I would be very interested in contents of dvd.cmd. Maybe it has the name of the program used to load DVD media in library drive.

For MTX.
In directory man1. From documentation text file.

 
       inquiry	 Report	 the  product type (Medium Changer, Tape Drive, etc.),
		 Vendor ID, Product ID, Revision, and whether  this  uses  the
		 Attached  Changer  API (some tape drives use this rather than
		 reporting  a  Medium  Changer	on  a  separate	 LUN  or  SCSI
		 address).

       status	 Reports how many drives and storage elements are contained in
		 the  device.  For  each  drive,  reports whether it has media
		 loaded in it, and if so, from which storage  slot  the	 media
		 originated.  For  each	 storage  slot,	 reports whether it is
		 empty or full, and if the media changer has a bar  code,  MIC
		 reader, or some other way of uniquely identifying media with-
		 out loading it into a drive,  this  reports  the  volume  tag
		 and/or	 alternate  volume  tag	 for each piece of media.  For
		 historical reasons drives are numbered	 from  0  and  storage
		 slots are numbered from 1.

       load <slotnum> [ <drivenum> ]
		 Load media from slot <slotnum> into drive <drivenum>. Drive 0
		 is assumed if the drive number is omitted.

       unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
		 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot	<slotnum>.  If
		 <drivenum>  is	 omitted,  defaults to drive 0 (as do all com-
		 mands).  If <slotnum> is omitted, defaults to the  slot  that
		 the drive was loaded from. Note that there’s currently no way
		 to say ’unload drive 1’s media to the	slot  it  came	from’,
		 other than to explicitly use that slot number as the destina-
		 tion.

       next [<drivenum>]
		 Unloads the drive and loads the next tape in sequence. If the
		 drive was empty, loads the first tape into the drive.

"mtx inquiry" would at least tell you the mtx program can see the DVD library.

"mtx status" library information slots/drives.

For load and unload you would need to know the library disc slot numbering. Always drivenum 0.

"mtx next" is interesting. It simplifies DVD to drive load/unload.

Kevin

[k1lv9h]

Hi,

I updated the batch file.
It will now properly check fulldisc directory for duplicates.
Also added code to handle spaces in user specified directory. I am still testing that bit.

Kevin