[Finished] Multi-part movies are not handled correctly, yet (1 Viewer)

[chefkoch]

See also wiki documentation Multi-Part Files (Stacked Files) and JIRA issue MP2-269.

Movies which are splitted into multiple parts (*-cd1.avi, *-cd2.avi) are displayed as two separate files, instead of one merged entry.

Not sure if it is needed, but it might be requested to enable/disable this feature.
By default it should be enabled.

MovingPictures' multi part handling has a lot of definitions for possible multi part file names or folders.

 

[morpheus_xx]

Interesting topic...

Currently each video item appears separately by default. The question is, what would be the best (MP2-)way to handle this?

Should the MediaLibrary navigation combine the parts and present them as "MultiFileItem"? But what does the Player do with this? It's initialized using a resource accessor (for 1 file). For the BDPlayer plugin I've implemented "Title" support, so you can switch between different playlists/m2ts files.

We need to think about a proper way...

 

[chefkoch]

Thinking about the detection of multi-part videos, possible splitting can be on

• file level, where the video files are in the same folder, but the filename differs or on
• directory level, where the video files are in two separate folders.

We might be able to re-use MovingPictures multi part detection.

Multi part files doesn't have to be Movies only. Could also be "other videos" or maybe episodes for series as well?
Handling multi part files is needed in various places:

• Combining and displaying all parts as one item in gui.
• Adding an item to a playlist, editing the playlist
• Continuing playback with next part, once the previous part is finished
• When stopping a video, remember stop time (part) to allow resume.
  When resuming start the right part at right time code.

I know this is not very technical, yet, because I am not sure how to solve it in the MP2 way of coding.
Do we need relation between the local file and the movie item?

 

[chefkoch]

information have been moved to and extended within wiki: http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/2_...iaManagement/Multi-Part_Files_(Stacked_Files)