A topic I am certain many of you are tired of responding to: The Lord of the Rings, or rather: Movies on Multple Discs Not Uploading Correctly.
I have already read through many conversations regarding how to correctly name / source / upload LOTR so that Plex will recognize as two movies. The way my set up was yesterday was working perfectly! Then today I logged on and saw that Plex has taken the two halves of the films and rolled it into one. At first I was ecstatic for this, but quickly realized that they are not rolled into one, rather that Plex only recognizes one.
I have uploaded screen shots of my set up so far. In one of the screen shots you can see how I have attempted mulpitle methods of naming the files to see the seperate havles of the films (this was an attempt to follow what some of the suggestions from other converstaions on the forum). I have also noted that many of the conversations available to me are from 3+ years ago. Perhaps there was an update that I am unaware of? Perhaps this is a temporary bug that shall fix itself? I do not know.
If you have any suggestions, please feel free to share!
From my experience, the best way to do this is to have a consistent name to the film prior to the pt1 pt2.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - pt1
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - pt2
Mixing CD1 and part 2… surprised it even sees those as two parts of the same film.
This works…but my recommendation would be to join the mkv’s. Plex tries to handle multi file - but some of the players and some situations it doesn’t work very well.
Try using either mkvtoolnix or mkv joiner to make the two files into one - i think it’s worth it in the end
Second this. Having one film is better than part 1 and 2 because if you want to start watching the movie in the middle of part two, you have to go all the way to the end of part one, have it pull up part two then go to where you want to go in two. If you join the parts you can treat it like a single file and all that headache goes away.
