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Does XBMC have the ability to automatically detect and consecutive play split video files (ie. CD1.avi and CD2.avi)? This handy feature is available in some other media software, but I haven't been able to find a way to evoke this function in XBMC.
Perhaps it's planned for a future update.
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It does it by default if you have stacking enabled. If it doesn't, then your files don't match the regexp for stacking, or you turned off the feature (treat stacks as a single file).
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I just found another movie folder in my collection that has two split files ... and the consecutive play (stacking feature) works fine. Therefore, there must be some characteristic about the particular files that doesn't work.
The file names contain 82 alphanumeric characters. Perhaps this is too long a file name for stacking. I'll reduce the length of the file name, and test the files again.
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I reduced the file name from 82 to 63 alphanumeric characters, and now the stacking feature works.
It seems that there may be a limit to the length of the alphanumeric string that can be handled by stacking.
After using XBMC for about a week, I'm still absolutely impressed with this media center.
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There is no limit based on text length. It's a regexp that's run.
Basically:
foo - CD1.avi
foo - CD2.avi
will match, as will foo - Part 1.avi, foo - Part 2.avi
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Directions on making the stacked files play Seamlessly? There's a definite pause/loading phase of about 3-5 seconds for me.
