Plex server will show episodes broken apart in the GUI if the file is labeled s01e01-e04. Plex can already support jumping to a position when resuming, couldn’t this same functionality be added to support start points for episodes?
I don’t see how it could do this automatically, any ideas?
I’d personally like this myself, at the min though I’ve just been splitting any like that, although was annoying to say the least!
It wouldn’t be automatic, at least I can’t see how it could be.
That’s not a bad idea. Though, you then also might want end points as an option too.
This is likely easier to implement than some of the other requests I’ve seen requesting that they consolidate multi-episode files in the GUI.
Taking this a step further and you could create chapters for movies from a single file as well
I could be mistaken, but I think they’re already rolling out chapter support–the server now pulls/scraps chapters (if not they aren’t already embedded in a file) and at least one or two clients support them (iOS for sure).
So, on the chapter side of things, I think we’re all set (or will be soon).
I think we keep this separate to keep things simple, where these flags would just be treated as attributes and accessible in the edit menu (while chapters are managed in a different manner). I see this as being similar to the start/stop time fields that are available in iTunes.
This would be great! I don’t think it would be easy to do it automatically, just an option in the info for a start stop time or something…
Be nice if it marked all of them as watched when they were multi-part episodes. At the min it just marks the first episode as watched, then you end up watching it twice through on deck.
If you put in the effort to determine the “switch” time stamps - then you could go all the way and separate the files as well.
@OttoKerner said:
If you put in the effort to determine the “switch” time stamps - then you could go all the way and separate the files as well.
I didn’t actually realize it was that easy… Although that only spits out MKVs…
I guess if you are concerned about generating files in a specific container to direct play to certain clients, there would be something out there to accommodate that too anyway…
There are a few solutions to make an mp4 out of a mkv.
this is one of them and it is well suited for the Plex world: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/931888/#Comment_931888
At least when the source file was a mp4, this script won’t make the quality worse by reencoding it.
If the source was an AVI, Plex will handle it better if it stays within an MKV container.
Plus you can properly tag the audio streams with language info.
@OttoKerner said:
There are a few solutions to make an mp4 out of a mkv.
Looks good but just adds another process to splitting the files and sends it back to the “cant be bothered” basket (for me anyway). I’ll have a look for something like the first tool you posted that allows the output container to be specified…
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