marcassaim 1 Posted January 2, 2018 Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) Hi, I'm trying emby for the first time and it looks very cool! Congrats. However I have a little question. I have an old read-only movie archive that I don't want to modify the scructure, it works well except for old movies being split in different CDs. For example \\drive\media\movies\My.Super.Movies\CD1 \\drive\media\movies\My.Super.Movies\CD2 It has such subdirectories and it looks like it uses CD1 and CD2 as the movie name and all lookups are done with these data which has old results. Is there a way to indicate to emby that these folders are special subfolders and use the parent directory as the movie name for lookups ? There are also some that have subdirs like DVD1, DVD2, DISC1, DISC2 etc. Any hint appreciated! Cheers, MarcAssaim Edited January 2, 2018 by marcassaim
d00zah 149 Posted January 2, 2018 Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) Looks like some adjustments will be necessary. https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie%20naming I dealt with this problem some time ago by converting to .mkv containers & using 'mkvtoolnix' to merge 2 discs into a single file. Took some effort, but it's the 'way things are headed'. Edited January 2, 2018 by d00zah
marcassaim 1 Posted January 2, 2018 Author Posted January 2, 2018 Hi, Yes that would be of course a solution, but in my case I would like to keep filesystem intact like it is now. More precisely it's a read-only mount so I have no power to modify files on it. I wanted to know if namings schemes are something configurable in emby, or if the only way is to grab the source, modify it so it can support multiple CDs subdirs, and recompile it... Anyway thanks for your answer
marcassaim 1 Posted January 2, 2018 Author Posted January 2, 2018 I'm not 100% sure but it looks like it's something that could be done here:https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/blob/f13ec1eb348964b027fbdb74d6a9150617638e0e/Emby.Server.Implementations/Library/Resolvers/Movies/MovieResolver.cs#L404 There is even a TODO entry in the source talking about multi disks. Maybe it's exactly what I am looking for ?
d00zah 149 Posted January 2, 2018 Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) As the WIKI entry suggests, it IS/has been supported by Emby... just not as you currently have it structured. @@Luke, the OP seems to be doing some hybrid of the example: Examples: \Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009)-cd1.mkv\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009)-cd2.mkv\Movies\Scarface (1983)\Disc 1\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO\Movies\Scarface (1983)\Disc 2\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO Any 'official' guidance? Edited January 2, 2018 by d00zah
Luke 42077 Posted January 2, 2018 Posted January 2, 2018 The structure would basically have to mimic what you see for video files, just using the same idea for folders. So yes, moviename-cd1, moviename-cd2, is what is currently supported as of today.
marcassaim 1 Posted January 4, 2018 Author Posted January 4, 2018 So at the moment Movie.Name\CD1\file.avi is not supported. It looks like it's using CD1 as movie name. Okay thanks for the answers! Cheers, MarcAssaim
Solution Luke 42077 Posted January 4, 2018 Solution Posted January 4, 2018 Correct, yes. It is a good idea to support that, but as of today it is not. 1
plsharevme 1 Posted September 28, 2024 Posted September 28, 2024 I have a directory structure for a movie that I would like to add to my Emby library, and I want to ensure it's compatible. Here’s the structure I’m using: Copy - movie (2009) - CD 1 - VTS_01_1.VOB - VTS_01_2.VOB - VTS_01_3.VOB - CD 2 - VTS_01_1.VOB - VTS_01_2.VOB - VTS_01_3.VOB Can you please confirm if this format is supported by Emby? Are there any specific requirements or recommendations for organizing movie files?
pwhodges 2012 Posted September 28, 2024 Posted September 28, 2024 I can't answer your question directly, but I can say that support for such a structure is dying. You'd be far better off extracting the video to MKV files using MakeMKV. Paul 1
Luke 42077 Posted September 28, 2024 Posted September 28, 2024 14 hours ago, plsharevme said: I have a directory structure for a movie that I would like to add to my Emby library, and I want to ensure it's compatible. Here’s the structure I’m using: Copy - movie (2009) - CD 1 - VTS_01_1.VOB - VTS_01_2.VOB - VTS_01_3.VOB - CD 2 - VTS_01_1.VOB - VTS_01_2.VOB - VTS_01_3.VOB Can you please confirm if this format is supported by Emby? Are there any specific requirements or recommendations for organizing movie files? Technically you can import that, but I think you’ll end up with lots of individual entries rather than the single combined movie you were hoping for. You’ll have to use our dedicated naming conventions for that: Movie Naming having said that, in order to get the best experience possible I would suggest joining the files. 2
plsharevme 1 Posted October 2, 2024 Posted October 2, 2024 On 29/09/2024 at 04:42, Luke said: Technically you can import that, but I think you’ll end up with lots of individual entries rather than the single combined movie you were hoping for. You’ll have to use our dedicated naming conventions for that: Movie Naming having said that, in order to get the best experience possible I would suggest joining the files. Okay, thanks for your assistant. 1
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