Separete TV series versions

[arrbee99 1817]

Just wondering, is there an option somewhere to show separate versions of the same TV show where the only difference is resolution, so in My Media > TV there would be an entry for Chernobyl and another one for Chernobyl 4K ?

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

I don't use it but I believe there is a pre-play option where as you start playback you can choose the version to be played.

I know it is available for movies so I believe it should be available for TV shows. But you do need to go into the pre-play screen to get the choice.

[arrbee99 1817]

Correctamundo !

But I do tend to forget its there and in Movies I can have -

and yet haven't seem a similar possibility for TV series.

[Luke 42083]

For TV series this is controlled in the library options.

[arrbee99 1817]

It is ? I can't find anything except 'Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders', which isn't quite the same.

[Luke 42083]

OK sorry I thought that's what you wanted.

[arrbee99 1817]

Yes its good that that option will take say series 1 of House on one drive and season 2 on another drive and treat them as one, but am hoping there's a way to treat different resolutions of the same series as separate items, as per Movies.

[Luke 42083]

I mean you would have to just disable the library option altogether and have two different entries of the same series. From there you can rename one of them as desired.

[arrbee99 1817]

I could try. I'm sure I don't get how it works, but does it not affect items added before the settings change - I had 1128 series with that option ticked and 1128 series with it unticked.

[pwhodges 2012]

12 hours ago, arrbee99 said:

 hoping there's a way to treat different resolutions of the same series as separate items, as per Movies.

As with movies, you can add a suffix to the name with (e.g.) the resolution, and you will get a drop-down list.  But you have to do this episode by episode - there's no whole-series way to do it other than by providing separate folders which aren't allowed to get merged.

Paul

[arrbee99 1817]

2 hours ago, pwhodges said:

As with movies, you can add a suffix to the name with (e.g.) the resolution, and you will get a drop-down list.  But you have to do this episode by episode - there's no whole-series way to do it other than by providing separate folders which aren't allowed to get merged.

Paul

But is there a way to stop them being merged, except for the option mentioned above ? Still not sure what that does, regarding the 1128 series count also mentioned.

[pwhodges 2012]

The option above is how to stop them being merged; it is, however, a per-library setting - so if you have any single series which are spread over multiple folders on different discs, it won't do for you. 

I would never contemplate (dis)organising my data like that, though I can see situations in which it might happen naturally.

Paul

[arrbee99 1817]

Well yes, I add say Endeavour to H drive, it gets filled up, add another drive or two, later add more Endeavour to K drive, so I want it to appear as one. What I don't get is unticking that option and nothing changes in My Media > TV, Endeavour still shows as one item.

Or now I read the comment above, is that expected behaviour ? Or am I mixing up the whole series Endeavour with individual series 1,2,3...