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
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.
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.