Files with multiple episodes (1 Viewer)

[felix_clerc]

Hello,

I'm willing to use My TVSeries plugin to populate my collection of iso files.
I couldn't make the importer recognize more than 2 episodes, while some of my iso contain 6 or even more episodes.

Is it a limitation of the plugin, or am I wrongly naming my iso files?

I tried something like: <serie> - 1x01 02 03 04 05 06.iso

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Felix

 

[ltfearme]

We currently only support 2 episodes per file, sorry.

 

[felix_clerc]

I will try the following and post my results once done (might take a few days, sorry).

A work around could be to use symlinks to create dummy files with 1 or 2 episodes only pointing to the iso with more. The drawback is that the iso file will have to be mounted at each new episode, and that I will have to use the menu of the mounted iso to pick up the one I want, but for the time being this may work.

It requires vista, seven or server 2008.

I currently have an iso of albator 78, with 7 episodes.
I will rename it as "Albator 78 - 1x01.iso"

Then I will open a cmd as admin and run:

mklink "Albator 78 - 1x02.iso" "Albator 78 - 1x01.iso"
mklink "Albator 78 - 1x03.iso" "Albator 78 - 1x01.iso"
...

Or, in one line:

for %f in (2 3 4 5 6 7) do mklink "Albator 78 - 1x0%f.iso" "Albator 78 - 1x01.iso"

And then repeat with the next iso files, renaming the one with episodes 8 to 15 as "Albator 78 - 1x08.iso" and creating new links for the next episodes.

Note that this should work with any kind of files conataining more than 2 episodes, still requiring the user to browse its file if not wanting to see the first one.

And of course, this means the watched flag might need to be manually set...

My 2 cents contribution,

comments welcome.

Felix

 

[Collective]

How would I go about adding episodes from 'Star Trek - Phase II' The new voyages

They separate each episode into sections as if there were ad breaks
For example, each episode is broken up into files like these:

ACT 0 TEASER.mp4
ACT 1.mp4
ACT 2.mp4
ACT 3.mp4
ACT 4.mp4

Now if I try and join them together using MKVmerge, the audio goes out of sync more and more with each part. I can't seem to get it in a single file without loss of audio sync, no matter what I do.

So being able to add them to play one after the other as a single episode would be invaluable

 

[RoChess]

How would I go about adding episodes from 'Star Trek - Phase II' The new voyages

They separate each episode into sections as if there were ad breaks
For example, each episode is broken up into files like these:

ACT 0 TEASER.mp4
ACT 1.mp4
ACT 2.mp4
ACT 3.mp4
ACT 4.mp4

Now if I try and join them together using MKVmerge, the audio goes out of sync more and more with each part. I can't seem to get it in a single file without loss of audio sync, no matter what I do.

So being able to add them to play one after the other as a single episode would be invaluable

Your problem is the reverse of what this thread is about. MP-TVSeries will import each file seperate, but they will all show as a seperate entry, so I suggest you look into how you merged your file before. The MKVMergeGUI tool from MKVtoolnix v4.4.0 kit should have no problem keeping sync in check.

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