[Help Needed] One file with two or more episodes.

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Hi Guys!

I have one file that has 02 TV Episodes in a row. Is there a way to named this files so plex can “see” this and Split it so i can have that displayed in my episodes list info.

Thanks!
Braz.

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You can use a naming convention like S01E01E02 which would indicate SEASON 1 and both episodes 01 & 02.

Personally I don’t like having missing episode numbers in Plex when viewing libraries so I will manually split the file into the two parts. It’s a manual process but I prefer the outcome much better.

Lots of free tools you can use to cut/save files such as Avidemux which works with MKV, AVI, MP4, TS and other files.

Carlo

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see https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/263887/naming-tv-series-help-please#top

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@cayars said:
You can use a naming convention like S01E01E02 which would indicate SEASON 1 and both episodes 01 & 02.

Personally I don’t like having missing episode numbers in Plex when viewing libraries so I will manually split the file into the two parts. It’s a manual process but I prefer the outcome much better.

Lots of free tools you can use to cut/save files such as Avidemux which works with MKV, AVI, MP4, TS and other files.

Carlo

Hi @cayars!

Thank you for your help! This is a solution but i want to avoid it. It seems to me that the link below posted by @OttoKerner is a reasonable solution for this case.

Thank you again for your help!

Braz.

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The problem is that if you don’t split the files then if you use any tools to look for missing episodes these multi-episodes will come up missing the second file. In Plex you will also have an episode “missing” from the listings.

So with something like S01E01E02 you’ll end up with a listing for E01 then nothing for E02 and then a listing for E03. So it “looks” like you have missing media.

How many files do you have like this? If only a couple a tools like AVIdemux (windows) would make short order of splitting the files.

  1. Make copy of original file (just in case)
  2. Use sliders in AVIdemux to select the first episode and delete other content. *
  3. Save content as first episode
  4. Reload original file copy
  5. Use sliders to select episode 2 content and delete other content *
  6. Save content as second episode
  • It’s pretty simple since you have sliders to drag or use the arrow keys to select the parts of the file to DELETE. Think if this was a regular recording DVR file. You would highlight the commercial segments with the sliders then hit the DELETE key on your keyboard and it’s removed. With multiple episodes you just remove anything not part of the first episode then save it (basically 2nd half of file). For the second episode you will basically remove the first half of the file.

Hope that’s clear and simple enough.

Best of luck to you however you accomplish this,
Carlo

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Thank you for your reply @cayars !

I only have 02 or 03 files like this…I will give i try on this method…Believe me i am not good with these tools but it seems to be an easy thing to do.

Thank you!
Braz.

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@BrazMan said:
I only have 02 or 03 files like this…I will give i try on this method…Believe me i am not good with these tools but it seems to be an easy thing to do.

Here’s another option
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/173648/howto-splitting-multi-episode-files-with-mkvtoolnix-gui/p1#top

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@OttoKerner said:

@BrazMan said:
I only have 02 or 03 files like this…I will give i try on this method…Believe me i am not good with these tools but it seems to be an easy thing to do.

Here’s another option
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/173648/howto-splitting-multi-episode-files-with-mkvtoolnix-gui/p1#top

THX @OttoKerner . I will try it!