I have tried a few different ways of naming these separate parts of this episode, but it still keeps breaking them apart. I usually keep to one file per episode, but I thought it might be easier for caching and streaming to chunk these out.
Yeah, my naming convention wasn’t what was breaking it, but the fact I went above 8. I’d never hit that limit before. I’ve gone and concatenated the files together so it won’t be a problem for this episode again, but I’ll bear that in mind for next time. Concatenating that many files (via ffmpeg) was a pain in the ass, so next time I’ll just make sure to concatenate to equal or fewer than 8.
plex essentially works the same way as nbc, pms breaks up content into chunks (transcoded or direct play/stream), since those chunks out to the client.
As Teknojunky wrote above…
Plex will serve your content in small sections to your playback device / client. Those are usually only a few seconds long. There’s no real benefit for you slicing the files… it’ll actually make things more difficult for Plex… so better leave those files in one piece.
If you have trouble streaming the files it’ll be more effective to look at your network setup and potentially optimizing the files (e.g. having an app optimizing the file structure to improve streamability or transcode to a lower bitrate)
