OK so I have ripped a 3 whole seasons of Battlestar Galactica and named them Battlestar Galactica S01E01 Battlestar Galactica S01E02 Battlestar Galactica S02E01 Battlestar Galactica S02E02 etc.
Although the files were correctly named and in separate Season folders unfortunately the scraping software has mixed them all up and renamed some and duplicated others
Although each episode has got a name eg. S01E01-33 ,S01E02-Water, the program does not display the episode name in the title.
I have found by elimination some of the duplicate files, partly by file size, and partly using a paid for piece of Duplicate Video Finding software in the trial mode but this doesn't display the file name or location until purchased.
What I need to do to identify the ripped files is to compare them against the DVD which are in viewing order and have the title on the sleeve. A laborious task but the alternative is to rip all 3 seasons again and many took all night for Handbrake to process.
Firstly does anyone know of any freeware/shareware program (Windows or MAC) that can display two separate video files as filmstrips side by side so I can identify each frame? Ideally this needs to be able to display the chapters on a DVDas one source or I am going to have to rip each DVD in very low quality to be able to compare them. Alternatively on another forum there was discussion about using ffmpg and a script to write thumbnails from every 4th frame but this seems a bit long winded and I am not comfortable with script writing for linux. All ripped files are MP4 format
Secondly to avoid this happening again does anyone know of any software that will write the filename to the Video file metadata in a similar way to MP3 tagging software like MP3TagIt. This would store the file name in the metadata and even if the file name was changed would allow easy identification.
Many thanks
Fozzie