At home I have 2 boxes full of DVD-R Verbatims with TV series and Cartoons downloaded at the beginning of the 2000s. I’m talking about about 800 DVD-R 4.7GB. I would be willing to throw away all the DVDs because my old computer no longer has a working DVD player, so I wouldn’t know how to read the contents. But I have 5-6 sheets of paper on which I have written what each DVD contains. My doubt is: Don’t I waste time and re-download everything in 720p or 1080p format and buy like 4TB HDD or do I get an internal DVD player from the computer and copy all the old DVDs just so as not to waste the time lost at the beginning of the 2000s? Thanks all!
I wouldn’t want to load, click, wait, unload 800 DVDs. Scan the doc, play around with OCR and load that into *arr.
My autistic ass thinksbthat sounds like a ln enjoyable evening. Especially if ibget to sort it all out into file trees and make sure the files are all titled properly for media servers to read.
To me seems easier than sit, browse, search, get coffee, search again, download magnet link, open, watch, watch, Christ why are there no seeders, delete, browse, search, download link again, watch, yay seeders, get more coffee, watch, huh why have I only got 80%, crap, everyone only has a max of 80%, why didn’t I notice that, go to bed.
And if you are in the UK like me:
Browse, find torrent, view blocked page… (Torrents in the UK are effectively dead, nobody does it).
Meh, I have a sheet feeder for that sort of reason. You could always just take a photo of them. Much quicker if you are rushing.
Don’t bother. Tick the OCR box and just let it be.
My solution (and I actually am doing this sort of thing): Copy the loose video files off each disc, burn to fewer Blu-rays. Oh and I never made printed indexes, that was a waste of ink. Text files and grep. Nothing more.
Did you try sonarr/radarr? That will automate the painful part.
For some torrents happens also here, but emule is better for me in Italy, there are release still seeded after more than 10 years. With torrent people just download and delete from sharing