Need help with Concert DVD / Video

https://www.discogs.com/de/release/5422862-Colosseum-Complete-Reunion-Concert-1994https://musicbrainz.org/release/3bdefb6e-ca2a-4b87-9ce9-bcdc67bc516f

From there just normal discogs import, media type as Video DVD. My two questions are, how can I set the tracks as video with mb-edit-set_video_recordings.user.js? I checked the other topics here and I just don’t see where to click. :sweat_smile:
I could deliver exact track lengths/times but my second question is if it would be better to set this as one track only, because it is video and I just don’t feel comfortable with splitting my video file just that it fits.

For the userscript, click on Set video in the sidebar, then it’s self-explanatory.

For DVD, I usually split by chapter.
Especially here as it’s split by songs, it would be a pity to only have one big 1hxx recording.

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The buttons appear in the release, but clicking them does not nothing. It seems there is something missing? On the other hand every other script I use works. Greasemonkey 4.12.0 with Firefox 124.0.2

I like to have video in .mkv-container (smallest overhead) with chapters (which I could export to raw text for the mb-entry), picard can’t write .mkv anyway.

Btw. is .opus planned to tag/write in the future?

Select the recordings you want to edit (you can take select by clicking the first then shift+clicking the last in range).

If it still doesn’t work, maybe Grease monkey is no longer supported (it only works on Firefox).
Try Violentmonkey, then.

Aha, that did the job. Thx, mate. :slightly_smiling_face:

Btw:

mkvextract input.mkv chapters -s timestamps.txt

or

mkvmerge input.mkv --split chapters:all -o chapter.mkv

(this creates chapter-001.mkv, chapter-014.mkv …) :wink:

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On a side note, if you’d like to easily extract out the timestamps in a MusicBrainz friendly format to paste into the track parser, check out my script here :grin:

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Thank you. I don’t have that much DVD stuff and I’m not sure if I can run this on FreeBSD.
Also I don’t have knowledge about programming/languages, but quick try:

mr44er@ws01:~/musicbrainz-video-tracklist $ poetry install --only main
sh: poetry: not found
mr44er@ws01:~/musicbrainz-video-tracklist $ pip install poetry
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
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mr44er@ws01:~/musicbrainz-video-tracklist $ poetry install --only main
sh: poetry: not found

Seems to be too much effort to dig/fix into for maybe ~10 DVDs. :sweat_smile:

Aha, since you’ve installed poetry using pip, you have to invoke it using

python3 -m poetry ...

However, there’s the other issue about Python versions on FreeBSD. The script that I’ve written requires a minimum of Python 3.11, whereas the latest version of Python3 that’s packaged on FreeBSD is Python 3.9.18, the last I checked. I would recommend going through the Docker approach… if you can actually get Docker working fine on FreeBSD ^^;

@arifer … Which video formats does you script support ?
Is it possible to use it on a ripped DVD directory “VIDEO_TS” with video files in it ?

Hey @vzell, it’s really just a wrapper script around ffprobe, so any video file whose metadata contains chapter information, specifically chapter markers, baked in, will work. I doubt it will work in general for the use-case you wrote about, but if you had ripped the DVD into video containers using tools such as makemkv, it’ll work!

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As a small prestep you can open your VIDEO_TS folder with makemkv, export it and ~5 minutes later you have .mkv with everything muxed in it. This way you don’t have to rerip from the original media, if the script can’t read the split-files.

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Works like a charm… I used the docker approach… thx

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