I searched everywhere for something to at least easily and quickly batch process the ISO's and make them MKV's. However, to have to open MakeMKV, parse through the GUI, then save the MKV's, then organize them in folders with the extras to make it easier to get into Plex, then get it all setup in Plex - manually.one ISO at a time - is just a menial and un-motivating task. I also want all the extras and bonus features.

Therefore, those of us with this mindset know that MKV's are the answer - fast to take out of the ISO and lossless. I enjoy Plex, so I need to get all these ISO's in a format for Plex, but don't want to convert (takes time and reduces quality). However, we all know that ISO's are not going to be supported by Plex. It is just nice to have these in the archive. I want to keep a direct 1:1 disc image copy of all my discs, so I have a bunch of ISO's. I have a Mac Mini home server and I am finally getting around to archiving all my physical media. The thing simply dies if it encounters an error, and for all I know it might not work at all on other people's systems, but I figured I put it out here, just in case. When I get around to it, I can rename the files in 'Other' to be more informative, or delete them if they're crap. nd-extras/ installed, scanning the library will almost pick the proper file as the movie, and the remaining files as 'extras'. This works well for me: As long as the original ISO filenames are reasonable and I have. When you run the script you select the ISO files of interest and it puts the largest resulting MKV file into 'MKVs/diskname', the others into 'MKVs/diskname/Other', and moves the original ISO file into 'Converted for Plex'. It assumes that you have your ISO files in a folder that also contains a folder called 'MKVs' (where the results will go) and another called 'Converted for Plex'.

It's not fancy or robust, perhaps more of a starting point for others. It wasn't clear to me that there was a good way to convert a bunch of ISO files to MKVs in a way that works well for Plex on Mac, so I created the attached Automator workflow.

Keep original filename makemkv batch