so here is my situation. so, i have mkvs of a season of a tv show that i store on my server. when the tv show is released on blu ray or dvd, i go buy it and rip it as an iso to my server for backup and not having to change discs, replacing the mkvs. there are pros and cons to this method. the mkvs are much easier to manage and watch shows. i dont have to change discs, i know what episode im looking for and no menus to go through. however the quality is not as good and i sometimes want to watch the whole season disc, deleted scenes, commentary, have the whole "disc" experience. but i dont want to store duplicates of everything to get the best of both worlds.
so what i was thinking of was to write a program that will create a config file for each episode. once the episode file is loaded, the program will mount the iso with the default program and, since tv episodes on discs usually are one vob or m2ts file, play the corresponding file with your default player. but before i do this i was looking to see if there is already software for this and havent found any. is anyone aware of such a program? the second thing is, if i were to write this program it would be very tedious to manually point every config file to every episode. is there a database somewhere online where i can query and it will recognize the disc and disc structure to automatically tell me what disc i have and what episode is in each file? im guessing not and even if there is, since they are backups, i doubt the fingerprint would be the same anyway.
