Library entries show up as a entry in a folder?

[Avolow 0]

Hello all.

 

  I have been doing a re-setup of my server and am having an issue with multipart movies.

  For some reason my multipart movies have been showing up as a folder with the entries inside, if that makes sense.  Hoping someone might know what is going on.

  Example:  Pearl Harbor

The library looks like this -

 

Click on Pearl Harbor and you get this -

 

 

Click on Pearl Harbor here and you get this -

 

 

The directory where the movie resides looks like this -

 

 

  I have tried several different things from the movie naming page ( https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159102-movie-naming ), but none have worked.

 

 I am running on a Raspberry Pi 4 under DietPi if that is important for this question.

 All of my libraries have been set up as mixed content since I do have TV shows mixed in with movies in most folders.  Would this have anything to do with this issue? 

 

Any ideas would be much appreciated. 

Thank you,

Avolow.

 

[Luke 42077]

@Happy2Play can you link to other topics similar to this? Thanks.

[ebr 16169]

Hi.  You need to follow the naming convention for multi-part items exactly.  e.g.  Your videos should be:

Pearl Harbor - A.m4v
Pearl Harbor - B.m4v

Or, better yet, just combine the two into one file.  That will provide you much better functionality.

[Avolow 0]

20 minutes ago, ebr said:

Hi.  You need to follow the naming convention for multi-part items exactly.  e.g.  Your videos should be:

Pearl Harbor - A.m4v
Pearl Harbor - B.m4v

Or, better yet, just combine the two into one file.  That will provide you much better functionality.

Thank you for your replies, I am a bit of a noob at video.  I spent a few days looking through topics but didn't have any luck with anything I was able to find, which didn't seem to replicate my issue.

 

That is one of the naming conventions I tried as well as Pearl Harbor - Part1.m4v, PearlHarbor - DVD1.m4v, PearlHarborA.m4v and several others.  All have the same result.

 

What is the best software people use to merge their files?  I have tried "Open Shot Video Editor", but it makes the video image a bit darker than the original parts, and no mater the resolution I use it makes the file huge requiring I run them through Handbreak to knock the size back down. 

 

Thank you,

Avolow.

[ebr 16169]

mkvmerge.  MKV will be a more versatile target container as well, I believe.

[Avolow 0]

Thank you very much for pointing me to mkvmerge.   Merging the files is working great for me and is a much better solution.

 

Much appreciated!

 

Avolow.

[ebr 16169]

Excellent.  Glad it is working for you. Welcome to Emby!