movie-rip-epg.data(1)

💖 movie-rip-epg.data — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is movie-rip-epg.data(1), part of the videotrans fam. it's a lil helper program that goes digging through VDR's epg.data file and pulls out the movie info for you. iykyk. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

movie-rip-epg.data — literally just here to Gathers information from VDR's epg.data file. that's the whole job. that's the vibe. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

movie-rip-epg.data [-t title_mode] [-l language] < /some/where/epg.data
       > my_movie.info

not me writing the synopsis like a text to my bestie. you feed it a file, it spits out a file. iconic behavior. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so movie-rip-epg.data is a convenience program — a little treat, a lil quality-of-life moment — that gathers information about a movie from VDR's epg.data file. ✨

the way it works is: the program gets its info from the epg.data file that gets produced by VDR when it records a program for you. that's literally why the program is named that. no cap, the name is the whole plot. 💀

the program reads its information from standard input, so bestie, you should redirect the program's input from the epg.data file that VDR produced when it recorded your movie. that's the move. 🎀

then it writes its gathered information to standard output, so you should redirect the program's output into a file called my_movie.info — where my_movie.mpg is the file that was generated by VDR. matching names, matching energy, main character energy. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

the following options are available, and honestly? they ate.

• -t title_mode — sets the title mode. with this option you can determine which part of the epg.data file will become the title that is used in the DVD menu that will be created by movie-title. it's giving "choose your own adventure" but for menus. ✨

possible values are:

• title — this will simply use the "T" line in the file.
• short — this will simply use the "S" line in the file.
• squote — this will use the quoted part of the "S" line.
• auto — this will try to autodetect what to use.

fr fr, the title setting is the default if you don't specify -t. 🫶

• -l language — sets the language of the title headings that are produced in the .info file. the default is English, which will use the headings Title, Short description and Synopsis. 🌈

you may either specify english, french or dutch, or specify your language's words for title, short description and synopis (or long description), separated by pipe signs (|). yes, "synopis" — that's the typo in the original and we are respecting the original, always. 💖

for example:

... -l "Title|Short description|Synopsis" ...

could be used instead of english. so custom, so you. 🎀

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🌟 EXAMPLE 🌟

the command line format that i use most often is:

movie-rip-epg.data -t auto < epg.data > movie.info

lowkey the only line you need to remember. save it, screenshot it, tattoo it. 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

videotrans(1), movie-title(1), movie-make-title(1), movie-make-title-simple(1), movie-compare-dvd(1), movie-to-dvd(1)

the whole friend group. go say hi. 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

the author is Sven Berkvens-Matthijsse (sven@berkvens.net). please send any project related e-mail to videotrans@berkvens.net. give them their flowers, they earned them. 🌸

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💀 BUGS 💀

none known. but if you find one, please report any bugs to videotrans@berkvens.net! we're not being dramatic, we're being thorough. 🙈

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and that's the whole page, bestie — this was movie-rip-epg.data(1) from the videotrans manual set, dated right there alongside the videotrans source/version in the original footer. slay, periodt, go rip some epg data. 💅✨🎀🦋🌸