garyft
November 15, 2023, 2:51am
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I have multiple episodes covering two seasons that are all in one file. I named the file S01E01-E04-S02E01-E05 but Plex now shows this as Season 1, but with the first four episodes listed from season 2. What is the best way to handle this, or can it be handled at all?
pshanew
November 15, 2023, 2:58am
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I’d suggest splitting the episodes into discrete files. This how-to describes one process for doing so:
The purpose of this HowTo is to split videofiles which contain more than one episode of a tv show into single-episode files. So they show up individually within plex, can be played individually and don’t produce any of the weird things that multi-episode files are plagued with.
The tool used is MKVtoolnixGUI
it is freely available for all major PC operating systems.
Therefore the container format of the output files will be MKV.
The input format can be a multitude of containers like AVI, MP4…
garyft
November 15, 2023, 3:20am
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Thanks, I’ll take a look at that
garyft
November 15, 2023, 3:39am
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That worked, although I split the file by chapters rather than timestamps as the how-to suggested. Worked like a charm, That you for the advice!
pshanew
November 15, 2023, 3:40am
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You’re welcome, glad it worked!