-I'm running 9.04
-Under Settings/Video/General (I have Treat stacked files as single file on)
-Under Settings/Video/Library (I have Stack duplicate TV Shows on)
I have a Directory called Lazy Town with three files in it
Sportacus s01e23 - cd1.avi
Sportacus s01e23 - cd2.avi
Sportacus s01e23 - cd3.avi
XBMC will not stack these files.. it shows I have three Episode 23's.
I've tried Sportacus s01e23 -part1.avi .... that didn't work either
I've tried Sportacus s01e23 - part1.avi ... same thing.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank-you in advance.
TV episodes do not stack. Reason is that it's a lot harder to ensure that things don't go wrong.
It'll be something I'll be remedying with the new video library.
Ahhhh.. Thank-you for your reply... I really have been testing and retesting.. changing file names/ structures.... even tried to play with the advancesettings.xml.
So I'm glad to see it's not me.
OK DUMB question.... when will the new lib be coming out and how do I find out about it?
thx again.
(you've saved me a lot of extra testing)
No ETA on the new library.
Your only solutions for multifile episodes in the meantime are:
1. Use files view.
2. Join the files together.
3. Make some code changes to support stacking.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Hi,
is there any news with multi-part episodes implementation? For example, TheTVDB decides to show "Broken" in House M.D. as one episode while there is two episodes in iTunes HDTV version...
Honestly, merging AVIs it's a really simple task, not time consuming. I suggest you go in that direction (don't know about other formats, mkv shouldn't be too hard but I'm not sure).
I would suggest merging is not the direction to go.
Requiring thousands of users to merge avi just because the primary scraper tvdb does something one way is not a slick or long term solution.
Sure, I think it's practically impossible to join two hi-def episodes in .mkv containers without sound offset and other problems. It's not a solution.
I think than auto-joining of two or three files matching some kind of pattern ("-part1, -part2" and so on) is a good temporary solution until new lib would be implemented.
how about you stop downloading retarded files then?
You mean Iceland's only contribution to international television?
heh, i didn't point to the content just the file format
You would have been in full right though
Guys what r u talking about? :-)
I always thought .mkv is good...
we're on about splitting eps in several files.