TV Episodes Split into 2 parts and TheTVDB "2-Part Episodes" ordering

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I have a TV series (Agatha Raisin) which was originally broadcast as 2 hour episodes (90 minutes excluding adverts) and is now being repeated with each episode being in two parts.

These get recorded by the DVR as follows:

Agatha Raisin (2016) - S02E01 - The Wizard of Evesham Part 1.mp4
Agatha Raisin (2016) - S02E02 - The Wizard of Evesham Part 2.mp4

When adding these to the library, these are being identified so that part 2 is identified as the second original full-length episode.

On the TheTVDB site for that show (https://thetvdb.com/series/agatha-raisin) I see that there are 3 episode orderings:

  • Aired Order
  • Absolute Order
  • 2-Part Episodes

The third option appears to have the episodes split into two, so seems to be what I need but the only episode orderings Plex offers when editing the show are:

  • Airing order
  • DVD order
  • Absolute numbering

Is there any way to allow Plex to use this “2-Part Episodes” ordering?

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Plex can currently only deal with Airing, DVD and absolute order.
Plex is currently working on their future tv-show scanner/agent – there’s been discussions about how it’ll handle these different orders and if it’ll also support alternative orders beyond those 3… I suppose the next weeks will show what we’ll be getting to work with :smiley:

Edit:
As for your actual issue… do I read your post correct that you’re recording the full-length / double-episodes but Plex is labelling them incorrectly as half-episodes?!
Have you considered simply renaming them as s02e01-e02?

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No, it’s the other way round. I’m recording the half-length episodes (those are the ones under the “2-Part episodes” ordering in TheTVDB), but Plex is identifying them as the full-length ones.

Does Plex support the “.partn” suffix for episodes like it does with movies?

If I renamed

Agatha Raisin (2016) - S02E01 - The Wizard of Evesham Part 1.mp4
Agatha Raisin (2016) - S02E02 - The Wizard of Evesham Part 2.mp4

to

Agatha Raisin (2016) - S02E01 - The Wizard of Evesham.part1.mp4
Agatha Raisin (2016) - S02E01 - The Wizard of Evesham.part2.mp4

would Plex merge them into a single episode and play both files?

Edit: I’ve just tried that and it appears to work, so that seems to be the workaround for now.

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