Multi-File Movies with Roku.

[sepa 1]

Hi,

I am new to MB. I have been using Plex for a few years now, used XMBC/MCM combo before that.

 

 

I have quite a few movies who are in two file formats. I can not get MB on Roku to play these correctly.

I will only play the first part of the movie. The 2nd part is no where to be found.

 

In the server software, I can get it to show "extra" files under the movie, which has to be started manually. 

 

Is it not possible to make the MB Server not play these 2 parts as one file?

 

[Luke 42077]

at the moment, no. it just hasn't been very highly requested. i wouldn't rule it out for the future though.

[sepa 1]

Damn....

 

I hit wits end with fighting small Plex issues and the staff becoming too concerned about commercializing.

The question now is if I should replace all my 2 part movies or move to something else.

 

I really like MB's look and feel. I think the transcoder is cleaner than Plex's too. It might not be as advanced but my pictures are looking more clear under lower bitrates.

 

 

Thanks for the answer!

[Luke 42077]

Thanks, ideally we'd like to support all of these variations, but this is a challenging one so we really have to weight it against demand. But you never know for later.

[gcw07 347]

Eventually it will be supported in some manner. Your actually the first user to even bring it up in the 6 months the channel has been available. It will probably just offer an option to start part 2 or something. I haven't really even seen how the server handles that at all. It is something that will be considered and added eventually. Just no date at this time. Thanks.

[sinjen 36]

Hi Sepa,

 

Is there a specific reason you can't join your two part movies into one with something like MKVmerge?

 

 

-Sinjen

[sepa 1]

Hi, Sinjen.

 

No reason at all. I just have a huge selection (probably 50+) that are in two parts. 

I wanted to see if I was missing something with making them play back to back automatically or if I needed to replace/repair them.

 

 

Thanks

[Luke 42077]

you are certainly free to keep your multipart movies. we don't want to scare you away into using something else. i think what everyone is just trying to say is, there are quite a few benefts that can be achieved by taking an hour to combine them all with mkvmerge.

[steve1977 67]

Are you sure that this is not working already or may it be a file naming issue? I also have quite a few multi-file movies and I believe that I can play them well through the webplayer. I need to check when I am back to my MBS computer, but I am near-certain that this is working already.

[gcw07 347]

It works through the web player. It isn't supported on the Roku at the moment.

[Arterius 0]

Hrm - I've never tried to use the compression possible in an mkvmerge attempt. I typically rip whatever it is to an MKV then compress to MP4 with Handbrake. I'll give the MKV compression a whirl. Thanks. (and thanks for considering the feature.)

Edited December 30, 2013 by Arterius

[Arterius 0]

A newbie as well, but would like to echo the feature request.

 

We've been using MediaBrowser for about 2 months after trying Plex and Roksbox on our Roku. Loving the MB3 interface and other features. I didn't even realize this was an issue until my wife wanted to watch a movie that was based on a two-sided DVD. I generally rip and compress, for space reasons, and had followed the naming conventions guide (super handy, btw), and saw that it had two parts int he web UI, and assumed it would do something similar in the Roku UI. My wife, in the middle of her movie, informed me that she couldn't find "part 2".

 

As with sepa, I have a good 50+ movies that are split (multi-part box sets and the like), and while I could rip them (again) and combine them, I'd be forced to leave them as uncompressed MKVs, which wouldn't address the space issues I'd run into. (Unless I'm misunderstanding the process of mkvmerge, which still results in 2 titles, just in the same mkv container - and when compressed with something like Handbrake, you still end up with 2 titles, as there is no real way to combine/merge the two separate titles/streams).

[Luke 42077]

mkvmerge can combine them into one file that plays the whole thing seamlessly, whether compressed or not. note that i'm only pointing that out and not trying to indicate we won't add support for this at some point.