Importing files from DVD's

[tesla1886]

I have a small (hopefully soon to be growing) collection of DVDs, both movies and tv series. I have copied most if not all to my PVR on a drive specifically for them, IE separate from the drive I record to. All are m4v files. However most of the DVDs in my collection are partial TV series. There are very few TV series sets that I have that are complete. The drive I have them on will be upgraded at a later date, it is about half full as of now.

What I would like to do is to be able to import these files into the play list and view all the meta data, IE season number, episode number, description etc and play them out of the play list just like I do a program that was recorded. I only want to important the series that are complete if there is no way of important everything without avoiding duplicates. In other words lets say I have the complete collection of A, B, and C and only part of the collection for D, E, and F. I would like to import everything from A through F, only if I can avoid duplicates in the future of D, E, and F. If duplicates cannot be avoided then I only want to import A, B and C and will import D, E, and F when they are complete.

I don't mind manually creating the xml files to import the videos if I have to, but wouldn't mind a reliable automated way either that won't create more work then if I had done everything manually in the first place.

1. Has anybody done anything like this?
   
2. If so, how?
   
3. How was your experience doing this?
   
4. Any tips you could provide?
   

I hope I was able to clearly explain what I want to do.

Thank You

[tesla1886]

I figured it out using vidimport from the link below. It is command line (no gui) but the easiest thing to do is just drag the folder or file(s) onto the vidimport.exe file, do so will create a xml file called video. In may cause it may take a little work editing the xml file the way I want it but in the end it will give me the results I want.

http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?....VidImport