I’m wondering how to name a tv series in the following set of circumstances.
The TV show was aired with multipart episodes, ie
S01 E01, S01 E02, S01 E03, S01 E04 - however I have all four of these as a single file. Will I have to split the file into four parts?
James
Which series is it?
Maybe it exists as a Movie on TheMoviedatabase and you can add it into your movie library instead?
If you want to use it as a normal series (where you get descriptions for each of the episodes, and play each episode separately) then yes, there is no better way than to split the file.
see http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/173648/howto-splitting-multi-episode-files-with-mkvtoolnix-gui/p1#top
Hi,
It’s The Tomorrow People - http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=72458&seasonid=4183&lid=7
James
Ah, I thought it was a mini series with only 4 episodes, but this is a full blown series with several seasons. Adding it to a movie library is off the table then.
Apart from proper splitting, you could name your files just with the first episode that is in each file.
By doing so, your tv show will appear as if it had ‘gaps’ in it, but you will be able to watch it normally.
You’ll advance through the episodes in the correct order.
Unsure how this is marked as answered already… You name it S01E01-04.
@shrouski said:
Unsure how this is marked as answered already… You name it S01E01-04.
This is the official method. But it has a giant flaw:
You will get 4 episode items in your library, but when you watch epsiode 1, you will watch the whole file with all 4 episodes.
Plex will then mark episode 1 as ‘watched’.
Then it will direct you to episode 2, which is the same file.
So you get to watch all 4 episodes again…
Really? I have never noticed this when watching seasons and quite a few have had double episodes but usually the season finale. Looking at my Sonarr episode and episode file counts, I must have 57 joined episodes so will give it a test at some point. That’s poor if true.
@shrouski said:
Really? I have never noticed this when watching seasons and quite a few have had double episodes but usually the season finale. Looking at my Sonarr episode and episode file counts, I must have 57 joined episodes so will give it a test at some point. That’s poor if true.
Almost everyone that has had to deal with this issue just names the conjoined twins, trips, quads as the first episode in that run and the next ‘regular’ episode just takes it’s place normally. If that tweeks your OCD, just pick up the descriptions from TVDB and do a little hand editing.
A TV Show Library/
… Some Show/
…Season 01/
…Some Show - S01E01 - Yea, this is fun (1 thru 4).xxx <— edit for fun and profit
…Some Show - S01E05 - Whew, Glad That’s Over.xxx
@JuiceWSA said:
If that tweeks your OCD
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Or split the files up (using mkvtools, handbrake, avimuxgui, whatever floats your boat) at appropriate breaks.
It’s the only way I shut my OCD up 
But that just tweeks the OCD even further because once those episodes are joined they are unfit for any other purpose.
The only opening is on the first one and the only closing credits are on the last one, there is no editing software I am aware of that will do frame accurate editing on h264 material and the best you’ll get is a VERY rough edit (within a second or two of where you want it) that will most likely whack an episode off in mid-sentence.
VideoReDo will do frame accurate editing on MPEG2 streams, but even if these episodes were MPEG2 streams there isn’t enough material to create a suitable ‘single episode’ that doesn’t look like a hack-job.
No… once they’ve been joined the best possible solution is to just run them into the library as one giant episode and edit the description to include all the episodes in the run.
I’ve been known to spend a greter length of time editing than length of time watching. Sad but true (damn that compulsion).
You’re right about the cuts though - I’ve never had it cut mid-sentence, but there’s been a couple that have been so close as to be odd.
