Multi-part Episodes (1 Viewer)

[lloydsmart]

Hey. I'm fairly new to MediaPortal, but I've got it up and running along with TV-Series, and am very impressed with both.

One of my few remaining issues to sort out, however, is where I have multiple parts of episodes in a season. For example, I have a lot of episodes of Dr. Who stored on my hard drive, and most of the early ones have several parts. In season one, for example, episode 8, there are 6 parts. They are named like S01E08P06. My questin is how to get these sorted in TV-Series neatly and logically? Ideally I'd like to be able to click on the banner for the series, then select the season from a menu, then select the episode, then be presented with a list of parts for that episode, which I can select to play. Is this possible? Thanks!

 

[lloydsmart]

No-one have any idea how to implement this? It can't be that hard, can it?

 

[zOnk.oNe]

I"d like to figure this out too.
I've got things like "Band Of Brothers" which are labeled as Season.1 Ep 1 part 1 and 2.

 

[piranha]

Join the AVI's together if they are listed as one episode on thetvdb

 

[zOnk.oNe]

True...but seems like there would be an easier solution.

thx for the suggestion tho

 

[Clean]

The easiest solution is to use AVI-Mux to join the files together. The next solution would be to join them as MKV files with mkvtoolnix and create chapter points which will allow you to jump to different parts of the episode. Then assign Next/Prev chapters to keys (I use F7 & F8).

 

[lloydsmart]

The easiest solution is to use AVI-Mux to join the files together. The next solution would be to join them as MKV files with mkvtoolnix and create chapter points which will allow you to jump to different parts of the episode. Then assign Next/Prev chapters to keys (I use F7 & F8).

I guess that's what I'll have to do, just seems like a shame we can't get a solution to this within TV-Series. It seems like it should be quite easy to create a "folder", or submenu, for a particular episode, listing each of its parts inside so you can select them from the MP interface. Obviously, for non multi-part episodes, just play the episode straight from the season menu. Kinda like having a folder containing some files and some folders with files in them.

 

[jasonmorriso]

It would be great if the plugin could handle multiple files like "Moving Pictures" does. Allowing the files to show under 1 title, and and when selected, give you the option to play them sequentially, or start with one specific file.

 

[joz]

I totally agree with jasonmorriso.
I was just looking for a solution to this problem.

Joining like moving pictures and when in MP you click the episode a dialog pops up asking which file to play would be an awesome feature!