Multiple episodes, one file

I'm trying to rename my star trek collection so that it conforms to the plex naming standard. But I've run into a snag. I've named everything like so:

 

Star Trek Voyager/

  Season 1/

    10 - Some episode.m4v

 

Now, with some episodes, it's actually 2 episodes in one. And according to the guide, it should be:

  Star Trek Voyager - s01e01-e02 - Caretaker.m4v

 

But that doesn't seem to fly, neither does "01-02 - Caretaker.m4v"

 

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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I'm trying to rename my star trek collection so that it conforms to the plex naming standard. But I've run into a snag. I've named everything like so:

Star Trek Voyager/

  Season 1/

    10 - Some episode.m4v

Now, with some episodes, it's actually 2 episodes in one. And according to the guide, it should be:

  Star Trek Voyager - s01e01-e02 - Caretaker.m4v

But that doesn't seem to fly, neither does "01-02 - Caretaker.m4v"

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

According to the guide your doing it right.

Not sure why its not working, but I have multiep's named like this: Stargate.SG1-s01e01-02.Children.of.the.Gods.mkv

And that seems to match correctly.

/Mark

How am I supposed to see this 2 episodes in 1 when viewing through Plex/Web?

If you do it like mark said, you should see two separate entries in plex web one for each episode.
Make sure you are using the right scanner and agent.

I'm trying to rename my star trek collection so that it conforms to the plex naming standard. But I've run into a snag. I've named everything like so:

Star Trek Voyager/

  Season 1/

    10 - Some episode.m4v

Now, with some episodes, it's actually 2 episodes in one. And according to the guide, it should be:

  Star Trek Voyager - s01e01-e02 - Caretaker.m4v

But that doesn't seem to fly, neither does "01-02 - Caretaker.m4v"

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I had this problem a while back. Try this:

Star Trek Voyager - s01e01-s01e02 - Caretaker.m4v

I tried "Star Trek Voyager - S05E15-S05E16 - Dark Frontier.m4v" as suggested but no dice, still shows as one episode, episode 15, then the next one is episode 17. Even tried rename episode 1 as suggested, that made it disappear. What agent and scanner am i supposed to use ? Using "Plex Series Scanner" and "TheTVDB". All of this is running on 0.9.8.1

No-one using this feature that can shed some light on this?

No-one using this feature that can shed some light on this?

It works fine for me on linux 0.9.7.22 PMS. I use lower case: "s05e15-s05e16". But I doubt that makes a difference.

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Mine has just started doing this as well (Mac Version).   I have several multiple episode files which show up correctly but some new ones I've added are only showing as if they are a single episode.  I only see Episodes 1, 3, 5 etc.  

I have normally named my files S01E01E02  and this has always worked in the past and I have loads that still show correctly,  but this new show refuses to.   I rechecked the naming convention and noticed that its now preferred to do S01E01-E02  so I changed them and rescanned.  No difference.  I even tried a deep scan with no difference. 

Tonight I've added another twin episode of a different series and weirdly that one has worked correctly using the same naming convention.  S01E01-E02

Would the file size matter,  the ones that aren't working for me are only small files, as they are under 15 minutes per episode.

I'm trying to rename my star trek collection so that it conforms to the plex naming standard. But I've run into a snag. I've named everything like so:

Star Trek Voyager/

  Season 1/

    10 - Some episode.m4v

Now, with some episodes, it's actually 2 episodes in one. And according to the guide, it should be:

  Star Trek Voyager - s01e01-e02 - Caretaker.m4v

But that doesn't seem to fly, neither does "01-02 - Caretaker.m4v"

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I also have this problem with Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I have named my files like this:

Star.Trek.Deep.Space.Nine.S01E01-E02.m4v

and this:

Star.Trek.Voyager.S01E01-E02.m4v

The problem seems to be the .m4v, if I change the extension to .mkv it works, but the container is not mkv, it is mp4. I have also tried .mp4 with no success, only .mkv seems to work.

Can anyone help?

I have had mixed results. Some series seem to pull correctly and show both in plex/web, others do not. I haven't cared too much either way though and haven't pursued a root cause etc.

Having the same issue with Strike Back Season 1.  Files are named Strike Back - S01E01-E02.m4v and it is only showing up as one episode.  Anyone find a fix for this?  

Works fine for me with Exant, except when I come to watch the second episode, It's already played the whole thing and I've gotta mark the next one as watched. 

My naming convention is. 

Exant/
         Season 01/
                           S01E07-E08 - More in Heaven and Earth & Incursion. 

I doubt it's the fact I've got both episode names seperated by '&' apart from that we've got the same. 

That is unfortunately just how it works and I myself agree that it is silly. This is actually the reason I took the time to split these type of episodes.

Since you have plexpass feel free to bump my feature request: [Feature Request] Watched State for Single File/Multiple Episodes

Make sure to like the first post also if you feel it applys to you. I'm honestly surprised it didn't get more traction, but what can you do right. I'm guessing a lot of people don't run into issues with this often enough to care. :)

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Thought I had this issue, turns out I had missed the ‘E’ infront of the second episode number e.g.
“blahblah S10E17-18” should of been “blahblah S10E17-E18”
This worked for me and the episodes corrected themselves in my library view once I’d refreshed the library.
Hope this helps!

Multi-Episode Files appear to still be an issue for m4v containers. I just remuxed the files to mkv without changing the filenames and they show up as expected.

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@yarascavitch said:
Multi-Episode Files appear to still be an issue for m4v containers. I just remuxed the files to mkv without changing the filenames and they show up as expected.

I’m going to guess that the original files had embedded metadata, you remuxing to mkv removed it and that is why it’s working and not an issue with m4v (mp4) containers.

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@adamskoog said:
That is unfortunately just how it works and I myself agree that it is silly. This is actually the reason I took the time to split these type of episodes.

Since you have plexpass feel free to bump my feature request: [Feature Request] Watched State for Single File/Multiple Episodes

Make sure to like the first post also if you feel it applys to you. I’m honestly surprised it didn’t get more traction, but what can you do right. I’m guessing a lot of people don’t run into issues with this often enough to care. :slight_smile:

Can you say how you split the files? What format did you use? MKV, AVI, etc? I’m trying to figure out how to split my single MKV file into MKV episodes.

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@adelacruz Check out this thread by @OttoKerner: [HowTo]: splitting multi-episode files with MKVtoolnix GUI

Hi there. I had the same problem.

When i used plex for the first time i had no clue how everything works. I didnt even use a guide to get to know and set everything up. For some reason i figured it out myself, even the naming scheme, where the little tool called “RenameMaster” came in very handy.

So for this particular problem in this thread i also tried to use a “-” to add another episode number for a single file. It didnt work for some reason, now i used a “+” instead, e.g. “[name of series] - S01E001+002”. Now plex seems to split both and shows the exact amount of episodes.

Visiting the single episode overview it still shows the doubled length on both episodes. I didnt try out watching them to see how seemless they play or if it will be played two times in a row.

I hope someone can make use of my findings.

EDIT: Works seemlessly.