How can I name TV episode files which don’t have contiguous episodes? For example, one of the Night Gallery files contains episodes 13 and 15, but not 14. Is there a way to name those files such that Plex understands what’s contained or do I need to split the file?

You can name files S5E13-15 but that will end up including episode 14. Typically this comes up without skipping an episode so I don’t think there’s a way to handle that without splitting the video file itself. Some info about that naming option is in this article in case it helps: [image] N…

Split the file into individual episodes. Plex will then handle things correctly. [image] [HowTo]: splitting multi-episode files with MKVtoolnix GUI Tips, Tricks & How-Tos The purpose of this HowTo is to split videofiles which contain more than one episode of a tv show in…

Maybe the “DVD ordering” suits your files better? https://thetvdb.com/series/night-gallery/allseasons/dvd

Multiple, non-contiguous episodes in a single file

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FordGuy61 September 14, 2021, 2:56pm 3

Split the file into individual episodes. Plex will then handle things correctly.

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