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I am trying to add The Lord Of the Rings extended edition to my library but each movie is on 2 discs. What's the best way to handle this in xbmc? I tried mkvmerge but I get an error when I start the merge I get an error but it creates a file but it doesn't play properly.
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There is information on how to do this, at least the way I understand it. It was either in the wiki, or the How-to forum.
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So is his the "stacking" feature? The wiki isn't clear on how to do it. Do I need to create a folder within my movie source (The Lord Of The Rings The Fellowship Of The Ring) and put the 2 files in there and xbmc will play it like one file?
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Well this appears to be much easier than the wiki leads on. All I had to do was make a folder with the movie name and copy the 2 mkv's in there. There's nothing about stacking in the video menu like the wiki says, so someone ought to change that.
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http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=138640
Its quite clear on wiki
DIRNAME=MOVIENAME_(YEAR) with files inside
moviename_(year)_cd1.extension
moviename_(year)_cd2.extension
moviename_(year)_cd3.extension
etc etc up to 9 parts. Then stacking enabled for File mode and library mode should be auto.
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2013-05-14, 02:52
(This post was last modified: 2013-05-14, 02:53 by diverdiner.)
Hi
I have a single movie that span 2 BD discs and each in BDMV folder
How can I get XBMC to stack them together?
Thanks for any help.
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When I did it for The Lord of the Rings, I made a folder for each movie named exactly as the movie is named on imdb. In the folder, I put the 2 movie files with an a and a b so the order is correct and they play perfectly seamlessly like a single move.[/i]
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2014-04-20, 16:50
(This post was last modified: 2014-04-20, 16:52 by patseguin.)
Yes, I have a folder called Lord Of The Rings (2001).bluray and inside 2 movies: Lord Of The Rings (2001) disc 1.bluray and then disc 2 in the same place. This way, it all plays like a single movie. It's important to have the imdb name first and then something putting them in order after. I found that putting disc 1,2 works best. This works for all 3 extended edition movies and both 3d Hobbit movies.
Edit: you can use mkvmerge and make it a single movie if you want.
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2014-04-20, 17:54
(This post was last modified: 2014-04-20, 17:56 by patseguin.)
Minor point but did you put the year in parentheses? I dunno, maybe stacking doesn't work with ISO's? Can you just convert the ISO's into MKV's?
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