Right now, I don’t have a single Plex client that does everything.
The Roku Ultra UI is by far the best, plays multi-part files, but doesn’t play some 4K videos I’ve got.
The nVidia Shield plays the 4K formats the Roku doesn’t play, but doesn’t play the multipart movies.
I’ve also got a Fire Cube which Android-based, so again, no multipart support, and has less overall 4K compatibility than both the Roku and the nVidia Shield.
Just one client that does everything would be nice. I’ve even considered just building a HTPC to do it but then Plex stopped updating TV mode on the old PMP so I’d forever be stuck with a menu bar that takes up a third of the screen… and even then, it wouldn’t help the tablet version.
Well here I am with Lord of Rings Extended edition, just watched part 1 on my Shield and now I get to find out I can’t get it to watch part 2, and Plex has known bout the problem for months and hasn’t fixed it. Lovely. Wife is thrilled…
So I ended up renaming everything to match thetvdb.com and plex’s naming conventions.
The new issue I have is for files the contain multiple episodes (example:
“Pokemon (1997) - S16E25-E32.mkv”) plex detects the episodes and breaks them apart in my library, but when I choose a specific episode, it just plays the original file from the beginning. So in the example above if I choose episode 27, it will just play episode 25.
Any suggestions, other than splitting the files apart?
Nothing that Plex can do for you here.
But you could introduce video chapters to those “multi-episode-files” which would make it easier to jump to the episode you want to watch.
I guess I’m missing the point of using the Plex naming convention such as “Pokemon (1997) - S16E25-E32.mkv”
What’s the point of doing this if selecting episode 26 doesn’t take you to episode 26 in the file?
Plex has no way to know where the episodes start & end within the file, so it can’t magically extract and play “Episode 27” from S16E25-E32.
It provides that naming convention as an option, so that all of the episodes, their info, and metadata can be browsed and viewed and searched, if you choose not to split your episodes into discrete files.
I agree that it’s a weird experience, so I generally use one of the other options.
I still don’t understand why people have multi-part files. It’s like trying to put a square peg into a round hole. Just cut the thing round and get it over with.
Sometimes that is a very time consuming process, often the audio codec may be different between each part or just one part in the group of files you would try to stitch together. Then the user needs to completely re-encode all parts just to ensure that stitching them together will work.
This very common scenario is probably why the feature allowing parts exists.
Thanks for the update. It appears to support the playback of multiple parts, but it seems to not work with anything that is more than 2 parts. When it’s more than 2 parts, it just keeps playing the 2nd part over and over again. Does anyone else experience this on Android?
This was reported by another user already. I’m investigating. I’m closing this thread, we can continue in the other one to consolidate the reports. I know it’s tagged as Android TV, but it’s the same code, so a fix for one should fix the other.
