So I’ve recently run into a couple of shows where two episodes are in one file - the shows in question being Adventure Time and Courage the Cowardly Dog (it seems this practice is pretty common with cartoons).
First I had the issue that it would see a file like ‘S01E01-02 A Night at the Katz Motel + Cajun Granny Stew.mkv’ and just match it as ‘Episode 1 - A Night at the Katz Motel’.
I realised after some research that the problem was that an ‘E’ was needed after the second episode number too - so, I changed Sonarr to rename in that manner, and voila… it now creates two episodes from this one file.
However, then I come to play the episode and I see that regardless of which ‘episode’ I play in Plex, it just plays that one file in its entirety from the beginning - which seems to defeat the point of Plex being able to separate one file into multiple episodes to begin with?
So, what I’m wondering is if there’s anything else that can be done? Or shall I just return to the old naming scheme and manually add the title of the second episode to each entry in Plex?
@cl0udl1ne said:
So, what I’m wondering is if there’s anything else that can be done? Or shall I just return to the old naming scheme and manually add the title of the second episode to each entry in Plex?
This is a viable way which results in better usability later when playing the series.
Or you could split all your files into 2 halves, at the right time stamp 
Yeah I guess that’s the only way… I’m working on a remote server so splitting all the files will be a pain. I was hoping Plex would poll some DB for the correct length of each episode and start playback at the right point.
@cl0udl1ne said:
Yeah I guess that’s the only way… I’m working on a remote server so splitting all the files will be a pain.
at least in theory do-able, as long as you can install ffmpeg or mkvtoolnix
I was hoping Plex would poll some DB for the correct length of each episode and start playback at the right point.
This is almost impossible since there are so many different rips, encodings and tv recordings of the same tv shows out there.
Many of them with differing lengths and frame rate.
Yeah I see it would be difficult, I wasn’t really expecting this functionality to begin with… Plex itself is what got my hopes up when I saw that it had the ability to split a file into two episodes when named a certain way, as I don’t really understand the purpose of this feature if each episode just plays the same file. But hey, I’ll just do the renaming like I was going to anyway 
More practical than splitting for me, for several reasons. Thanks anyway for the help!
