How can I handle quadruple episodes? (1 Viewer)

[zicoz]

Hi I recently bought the a BBC box set with Charlie Dickens mini-series, and some of these have multiple episodes merged together, an example is "Hard Times". On thetvdb.com it's 4 episodes, but on the DVD it's only one.

I have previously run into the same problem with the Family Guy - S04E28-E30, where I'm getting a message that parsing fails because 30 is not 28+1. How can I fix this? Is it an expression problem or is there some other setting?

I'm using the following expressions for parsing. The top one is for double and the bottom is for single episodes.

<series>\<series> - Season <season>\<series> - s<season>e<episode>-e<episode2> - <title>

<series>\<series> - Season <season>\<series> - s<season>e<episode> - <title>

 

[BalduinB]

Just name it: S04E28-E29-E30 or 4x28-29-30

 

[alwaysdub]

That won't work, as only double episodes are supported, due to limitations of the database design.

See Issue 254 - mptvseries - Listing of multiple episodes in one file - Project Hosting on Google Code.

 

[RoChess]

Bad workaround (since it might take a while before support gets added) would be to create hardlinks, so you point to the same file with a link with a different name. The link is seen by MP-TVSeries as a unique file, but it will load up the original file. So you will have to deal with double selecting the right episode (first in MePo/MP-TVSeries and then via chapter/menu build into the file containing all the episodes).

Another way would be to undo the merge and split the file back into single episodes or a multitude of double episodes.