This before Andor season 2 blu-ray? 😭

Hm, I guess you could try to track down news about Blu-ray releases in Spain

I found BluForge today, which uses thediscdb.com to identify and name tracks. I am going to give it a try and will report back.

The Disc DB is missing A LOT and really needs some contributions!

Oh, I use K3b for ripping CDs. There are some newer and fancier apps if you don't care for the UI

I use MediaElch which is helpful, but this is still POST process. At this point, I have already had to manually identify every track on the disk and rip it first.

What I want, is something like we have in music, where the disc is recognized via a discdb, and each of the tracks on the disc are identified ahead of time, so when ripping, you know which tracks to extract, and can have them already named appropriately.

This would be really useful for TV episodes, where the episodes are not necessarily in track order (I watched Severance out of order for the first half of season 1 because the blu-ray had track 1 as Episode 3, track 2 as Episode 2, and track 3 as Episode 1 which wasn't obvious!)

There are several Jellyfin plugins that are supposed to help but I haven't needed to test any of them so I don't know if any would be helpful for your case

Closest would be the TV database which often has aired order, dvd/blu-ray order and then absolute/chronological order. For movies you have the Movie Database. Not sure if the movie database has the extras listed or not but it should list the different cuts for a film.

I usually check the length of each episode with the disc open in VLC and find the title with a matching length in MakeMKV, so I can set the names before extracting. Jellyfin supports naming episode files 'S01E01 Episode Name' which makes it easy to track what the file really is in case the db ordering turns out to be different. For nonserialized shows where order mismatches are likely I'll check with TVDB as I'm going through the episodes on the disc.

That’s what’s weird, for the native Netflix app I’m on Standard motion mode when I’m on « fluide » mode for movies on PS5/HTPC.

But I guess the problem is probably coming from something being set up differently if Netflix doesn’t have a secret sauce and my TV is capable to be perfectly smooth when displaying Netflix movies..

Maybe it's just your TV using a film profile with "enhanced fluidity", while isn't used in the game profile for the PS5. I avoid too much of that since feels artificial to me.

Philips 55PUS7394_12

Yeah, it seems to have a good processor in it.

I implore you, just try playing back your Blu-Ray rips with Plex or Phillip's built-in media app, streamed over the network.

Well my TV is a Philips 55PUS7394_12 that I bought in 2019.

Here are some of its specs for video

I can live with it, but I just feel bad that Netflix movies play better than my supposedly higher quality blurays😅

What brand of TV is it?

Anyway, could be a number of things:

• Your HTPC/PS5 are dropping frames because the Blu Ray bitrate is so high, + overhead from the player. TBH Netflix does a really good job with their apps.

• Your TV/PC aren’t switching the refresh rate properly. But the Netflix app should do this transparently.

• The blu rays were interlaced, telecined, or some hellish combo of both. Correcting that is very technical, but Netflix is quite good at it.

• Your TV is removing judder from the source (a common built-in feature these days), but that doesn’t work with your HTPC/Playstation.

• Your TV actually is interpolating frames on the Netflix app. While this is a more controversial opinion of mine, the “soap opera effect” is history: modern TVs have huge chips dedicated to doing it, and it looks really good (to my eyes).

• And if that’s the case, well… 30p or 60p just looks better than a “cinematic” 24p, once you’re used to it. There are issues framing scenes without 60p in mind, yes, but beyond that you cannot unsee the smoothness once your eyes/brain get used to it. I've personally rediscovered this trying to film family video in 24p.

• As far as I’m aware, Netflix doesn’t do interpolation on their end. But it’s not impossible.

If you want another controversial opinion of mine: don’t use HTPCs or anything in 2026. Stream stuff to your TV directly with Plex, Jellyfin, the built in player; take your pick. It’s just a better, more directly coupled pipeline to your TV, especially when you try to get HDR looking right.

And I’ve found my TV will directly decode anything under the sun. Weird media formats used to be an issue, but not anymore, apparently.

I can attest to that, it's my first and only 4K player.

I used to visit the 4K sub-reddit but soon left because people would shit on the PS5 for having no Dolby Vision support.

Personally, it doesn't bother me because my TV doesn't support DV either. I watch 4Ks on a budget! 😁

Yep

It is 4K? An un used XoneS is like 70euro

My all region blu-ray player is like half the price and no account needed

#1 reason I skipped that machine and waited for the Xbox One X. LOL.

PS5 is a great entry-level 4K player too!

No Dolby vision though. I have one and use an all region Sony Blu-ray player instead.

PS4 pro should be capable (Wikipedia): 4K 2160p, 1080p, 1080i, 720p, and 480p HDR10 HDMI out 2.0a (Edit) Oh never mind, looks like it can output 4k but it can't read 4k discs, well that's dumb

PS4Pro is Blu Ray only, the Xbox One S and X are both 4K UHD.

At that price point (around 100) I'll probably go for a PS4pro for better system and games, don't know about bd-player's quality differences.

As a game enthusiast I'm not a fan of both these "pro" models, I tend to play 720/1080p games on a 1080p monitor. I'm waiting to buy a PS5 for my 4k setup but this XOneS saved me for now.

Yup, but if you like gaming, you get more bang for your buck with the Xbox One X.

Plays Xbox One games with added enhancements that are not possible on EITHER the One S OR the Xbox Series S.

better than nothing ig