lang-server 2 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 I have a movie "ben-hur" which spans two blu-ray disks. If I use the stack option: \movies\ben-hur (1959)\Ben-hur (1959)-part1.mkv \movies\ben-hur (1959)\Ben-hur (1959)-part2.mkv Everything looks fine with the web browser and MBT. However MBC shows it has two different movies with the same name "ben-hur". If I instead add a unique sub-folder per part, then MBC is good, but web browser shows two movies Am I missing something on how multi-part naming conventions work ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37090 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 that convention looks fine. can you show us with a screenshot what you're seeing in MBC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang-server 2 Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 (edited) Oops, wrong information... I have been testing this numerous ways and mixed up the results. As stated above, with using the stack feature, web browser looks good. MBC and MBT ONLY shows (1) movie. When I select the movie, there is no option for the second part? Edited March 15, 2015 by lang-server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5051 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 I also bought and ripped Ben-Hur from BD recently and noticed your pics show the total time for both parts. Have you tried playing it to see if it maybe plays both though only shows it as one? The app I use doesn't support multi disk movies yet so I ended up using mkvmerge and appended both into one mkv. Worked very well and you can select chapters from the whole movie which I don't believe you could in the webclient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang-server 2 Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 The total time comes from the metadata, not the actually disk(s), in fact there is only one (1) metadata entry.. And no, it doesn't play both parts as one. I have used mkvmerge, but wanted to see if the new mediabrowser with stacking would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5051 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 (edited) My apologies. In the webclient and Samsung app it showed two different times for the parts and not a combined time so thought it may be the same for all apps and was maybe combining the actual movie in the background Edited March 15, 2015 by FrostByte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 (edited) Use mkvtoolnix to merge the two parts together, the results are better. That said, it should work but you should only see one movie and tje parts should simply play back to back. You shouldn't have to choose a movie part unless something has been changed recently. Edited March 16, 2015 by Deathsquirrel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang-server 2 Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Understand that.. I wanted to know if mediabrowser had the option with MBC to show "parts" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Understand that.. I wanted to know if mediabrowser had the option with MBC to show "parts" Not that I know of. It has always just combined the parts of multipart files together into one entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashMoney 94 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Shouldn't both parts be in the same folder? So instead of: - \movies \ben-hur (1959) \Ben-hur (1959)-part1.mkv \movies \ben-hur (1959) \Ben-hur (1959)-part2.mkv use:- \movies \ben-hur (1959) \Ben-hur (1959)-part1.mkv \Ben-hur (1959)-part2.mkv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14918 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 It sounds to me like it is working as designed. When you have a two-part movie using video files (not disc rips) then MBC combines those into a single entity. If you were to go into the chapters, you would see chapter entries for both parts together. It should work exactly like it would if it were only one file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang-server 2 Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Based on EBR statement, MBC should combine the two parts into a single entry... It's not doing that, it only shows the first part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14918 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 What do you mean by "it only shows the first part"? Do you mean in the interface or that it only plays back the first part. If the former, that is how it is supposed to be. If the latter, then I need to see a log. Thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang-server 2 Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 It only plays the first part, and only shows chapters for the first part. Would it make a difference that I using an external player ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang-server 2 Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 Never mind... The multiple part structure is "playing" perfectly in MBC.. I had too many different tests running and failed to notice when it actually worked. Final: Use the stack option: \movies\ben-hur (1959)\Ben-hur (1959)-part1.mkv \movies\ben-hur (1959)\Ben-hur (1959)-part2.mkv MBC will only show the first parts chapters, on the detail screen. However during playback, when it reaches the end of part 1, it will indeed automatically start playing the second part. This is using an external player MPC-HC. This at least for me, eliminates the need to use MKVmerge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14918 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 It should show chapters for both parts (assuming they exist) although I don't think the chapter image grabber works for additional parts so it will just have generic images for the second part's chapters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang-server 2 Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 Nope, both MBC and using the web interface "appmediabrowser.tv" only show 38 chapters, which is the correct amount for the first disk. It could be a ripping issue, where does media browser pickup the chapter count ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14918 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 The chapters have to be defined within the video file itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang-server 2 Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 hmmm.. Wouldn't this depend on the second disk being "chaptered labelled" has a continuation of the first disk. If the first disk is chapter 1-38, and the next disk has 10 chapters then it should start with 39, However when I rip the disk, the chapters on the second disk start with 1 and end with 10, not 39-49.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37090 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 for what it's worth, the web client currently doesn't display the chapters of the second video. maybe mbc does. they just pose a little more work for us so it takes longer for them to achieve full feature parity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang-server 2 Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 Actually for me, it's kind of a mute point. I tend to watch a whole movie. I may forward space a chapter, but I don't "select" to start playing at a certain chapter. As long as MBC is playing the parts successfully, which is does, I'm a happy camper. As a feature request, it probably would be the last thing I would care about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14918 Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 MBC does combine the chapters and display them all but the server does re-start the numbering and does not fetch images. MBC still shows them in the proper order and they are functional though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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