Optimizing movies with multiple parts

General Discussions
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I’ve searched and was unable to find the answer. I’m looking to optimize a movie that’s split into two 740mb files. If I optimize at “custom tv original” will it churn out 1 large MP4 file?

Plex optimizer is the fastest conversion tool I’ve used to take down the size of a large movie file. I then delete the original and save a ton of space

2

Because PMS’s primary focus when stacking media is to unify multiple parts into one seamless playback, breaking it back apart isn’t part of what it can do.

However… :smiley:

One way to approach this would be:

  1. Let PMS create the monolithic output file as you’ve described
  2. Take this output file and, using any of the video editors out there, split it into the two pieces you desire.

Part of the task the editor does is to write new header information in the output files. This is a simple re-muxing operation

I would think, if you split the original in half time-wise, the resultant files would be more-or-less equal in size.

Does this achieve your goal?

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Tried it out and it worked perfect. Movie X was listed as movie x cd1.avi 750mb and movie x cd2.avi 750mb in the file tree. Opened up movie x on my PMS clicked optimimize “universal tv 20mbps” and it gave me Movie X.mp4 1.41gb in the file tree. Deleted the original split files and now I just have one clean file. Super happy

4

I apologize for slightly misreading your post.

Yes, Optimizing when a movie exists ‘stacked’ (multi-part) produces a monolithic output file.

:slight_smile: