Hi

 

I'm wondering if anybody knows of any software out there that I can point at my unRAID box, and it can crawl through and check the integrity of all DVDs it finds (or blu-rays, etc.)?

 

After a few issues with unRAID (bad power supply, power cut, accidentally formatting all drives due to bug), I've had to rebuild some of the drives a couple of times.  When checking through them I've attempted to open each DVD folder individually with DVD Shrink.  As far as I'm aware, this tells me if any files are missing or corrupted, and I can re-rip them.

 

However, I'd like something that scans my drives automatically if possible.  Does anybody know of anything?  Is it so obvious that everyone's using it except me?  Am I going to have to learn more VB?!

 

I don't want to have to watch all of my movies to see which ones are broken if I can at all help it.

Oh, I forgot to say (if it's of use to anybody), that I use My Movie's option to update the Meta-Data files for all titles.  This then lets me know if any folders are missing altogether.  Also, if it hangs on a title, then that folder might have issues.

In order to check the DVD file's integrity, doesn't it have to have something to check it against?  You could use Teracopy or other software to check each DVD file against the original DVD, but that's just about as much work as re-ripping everything.

 

Basically, I don't see how what you are asking is possible.

What I believe the OP is asking for is a utility that will walk through the directory and file hierarchy and for each set of DVD files (or DVD ISO images) that it finds it will check that the IFO  and VOB files are a consistent set and that the VOB files contain no obvious errors (such as MPEG framing errors) in their data.

 

It should be possible - I just don't know if such a utility exists.

 

As an example, there IS such a utility for FLAC encoded audio files which I use (flactester) which certainly does help to prove that a collection of files in folders is still intact.

Yes, I'm asking what S80_UK is saying - apologies if I didn't word it well enough.

 

It's not checking against the original disc, but it is checking that all files are there and broadly in tact.

 

Like I say, DVD Shrink does some analysis work when you open a folder (files missing, corrupt), and I was looking to see if anything more automated existed.

 

It's not an exhaustive confirmation, since I have had movies I've had to re-rip that whilst they scanned OK, the picture was messed up.  However, if I've had to run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, it would show me where potential issues are.

OK, I see.  If you don't find a better solution, maybe you could write yourself a simple sikuli script that walks through each movie and calls up DVDShrink's verification function?