Multi-Episode File Naming?

If it’s just the one I’d recommend just combining the two videos into one with mkvtoolnix.

In fact, unless you’ve more than hundreds of multi-part episodes in your collection I suggest just going the mkvtoolnix route as needed anyway. Wipe the annoyance out for good.

I don’t use MKV container. I’m using Infuse on Apple TV. The library is a Plex Server on a pretty slow NAS which can’t do a real-time conversion which is required in case of MKV. So I’m repacking files into m4v container (without encoding) to let Apple TV decode and play a file.

Infuse always does direct play. There is no transcoding whether it is mkv or m4v. Those are just wrappers and shouldn’t make a difference in the actual video playback if using Infuse

Infuse on AppleTV plays MKV just fine. MKV is a container, not a codec. So your m4v files will have the same codec as the MKV files in 80% of the cases.

Also, your NAS doesn’t need to convert anything as the AppleTV / Infuse will do that.

Anyhow, I also don’t like to split and / or merge files. In my case I often have one file with 2 episodes. I won’t split a few hundred files by hand (as the length differs). Also, they were officially broadcast that way and still are. You find them this way on major streaming services. So I don’t like anyone telling me I should freaking split those episodes. That’s not a solution to a systemic problem in Infuse. It’s not even a good workaround. It’s a very, very bad one. It has a broken leg and a concussion.

Nice, thanks, just checked and looks like it does. At least on macOS. Will check on Apple TV a bit later. I just know that Plex client can play only native containers and Plex Server didn’t send original stream data in case of MKV.

I agree that merging/splitting files doesn’t make life easier, I love Infuse because it just works :slight_smile:

Ah, ok. It’s a plex server issue then. I have my files indexed by infuse itself. Am pondering to use jellyfin/emby to speed things up. Those might be a way to go for you, too. They should both support MKV.

However, I believe plex server has some settings that might help (such as no transcode, and so on). Maybe those help.

Hi, Just like all of the others here. I would really appreciate support for Multi Episode Files!
I think it would be a huge feature addition.

Thank you,

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Please add support for this.

Hi,
I’m unsing TinyMediaMangager to organize my files, download artwork and so on.
TMM does a auto renaming after loading Metadate and Artwork.

But the Renamer has one disadvantage, it renames Multi Episode files like this:
“TV Show S01E01 S01E02.mkv”

Infuse had a problem with this naming scheme. Is there a way to handle this? Or does anybody use TMM as well an has a solution?

I moved your post to a currently running thread in the suggestions forum requesting this feature.

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+1. Any update on this? This is 2024 now and I have a need for this feature as well.

+1 on this feature

My yearly rewatch of The Office through infuse would be made a million times better if this feature is added

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How is this still not supported after almost a decade of being requested? I see so many threads online about this when googling the issue.

any updates

I moved your post to the thread discussing this. You can follow the updates here (note this is tagged as “planned”) and in the upcoming features thread here.

it will be great improvement for tv show discs

Is there a compelling reason why this widely requested feature hasn’t been implemented in over 10 years?