Heres a fun one i’m racking my brain over right now, the TV show “Garfield & Friends” episodes are 3 small segments over 25 minutes. They are technically independent but there is an intro before segment 1 and then it jumps suddenly to segment 2, etc. Looking over at TheTVDB.com for this the episodes in aired order are listed individually, so episode 1 is episode 1-3. Looking at DVD ordering episode 1 is listed 3 times once for each episode.
I have no desire to try and take all 120 something episodes and recode them all to strip out each segment to a different file (especially since the intro is for all of them but only before the first one and an odd setup)
I don’t want to name the episodes to cover all 3 episodes (i.e. E01-E03) to have one file be 3 entries because unless I am mistaken watching one episode would still leaves the other 2 as “unwatched” (annoying).
I cant get anything but the first episode metadata out of the DVD ordering I assume, but as the DVD episode listing has multiple data pieces per episode number would this somehow be able to give me multiple entries tied to one watch value?
Is there a clean way (specifically to this funky situation) to take the one file for each triplet of segments and be able to see/search all of them separately but have multiple items tied to one watched value?
That’s pretty much the way to go… you can either split the files or name them as spanning multiple episodes.
By the way… if the episode segments are reflected in the video’s chapters you can easily split the file along those chapter marks. No transcoding required… this is e.g. available when using MKVToolNix (drop file in the GUI, select output, split before chapters, remux)
No chapter markers sadly, was one of first things I checked trying to figure out the whole issue with the first episode. A quick check also shows me the encoder didn’t break cleanly at the transition point so would definitely a re-encode.
Was hoping there was some odd way or difficult procedure to go around and force it through but looks like might be stuck with what I was already thinking
Is there a feature request yet for marking all episodes of a single episode file as played once played?
Yea, no, I was thats actually exactly what I was looking for honestly. I was on tonight and saw update and laughed when I saw those release notes. Once I redid the first few files and hit play on episode 1 it tracked the playtime on episode 1, but then at the end it marked 1-3 watched and went to start auto-playing episode 4. Version 1.8.3.2111 is doing exactly what I would hope with multi episode files.
Now I just need to go back through my library and undo all the other ones that I already worked around and tweak their names so they do get recognized as multipart episodes
