Multi-Season episode support

[dcutler 0]

Didn't find a topic on this specific case anywhere.

Following the TV Naming instructions it would seem that you could have an episode spanning multiple seasons, but it doesn't work. Specifically I am trying to get Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) Volume One to recognize that it is Season 1 Episodes 1-10 and Season 2 Episodes 1-10. I named it...

Star Wars - Clone Wars - 01x01 - 02x10 - Volume One

Emby recognizes it as Season 1 Episodes 1-10,  but not the Season 2 episodes.

I would be fine with making it a movie, but it seems all the databases (thetvdb.org, imdb.com, tvdb.com) have Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) only as a show and not as Volume One and Volume Two movies. Volume Two is all the episodes of Season 3 so that works no problem, it's just Volume One that's like this. This is the only show that I've ever come across like this because it was a micro series and only ever released in volumes and not separate episodes.

Thanx in advance for the help!

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Is this a rip from disc?  If so you could break the file up using MKVToolnix.  I have a few shows that lump episodes together into a single file on disc and use chapter markers to skip to the right episode.  I break these up into individual episodes.  It's a bit of work but the results are better.

[Happy2Play 9785]

There are actually several topics asking about this as lot of animation airs this way.

These are a total headache.  How would Emby determine where the episode split is to play say 2x10?  When they come as one item they have to be sequential as you only get one entry in Emby.

If you truly want metadata for each they will have to be split apart.

[Carlo 4561]

3 hours ago, dcutler said:

Following the TV Naming instructions it would seem that you could have an episode spanning multiple seasons, but it doesn't work. Specifically I am trying to get Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) Volume One to recognize that it is Season 1 Episodes 1-10 and Season 2 Episodes 1-10. I named it...

There are no examples showing multi-version spanning seasons but in case it wasn't clear I did add a line to the article at the top of this section

"All multi-episode files must be part of the same season."

Hopefully that might help others in the future.

[pwhodges 2014]

It is easy to rip episodes directly from a blu-ray separately using Handbrake.  I first play the blu-ray using a player that shows the chapter marks, and it's easy to check the chapter numbers for each episode - usually the blu-ray will play in the player as a single long episode.

Then in Handbrake, along with the rest of the ripping parameters you can specify the chapters for the first rip (it shows the length selected, so if the episode lengths are listed on the disk packaging that's another way to identify the chapters required), and then for each subsequent episode, just change the chapter selection and add to the queue; it takes no time at all.

Paul

[Happy2Play 9785]

14 minutes ago, cayars said:

"All multi-episode files must be part of the same season."

Well that is not entirely true either.  Say a cartoon is S01E01 and S01E03, there is still the issue of they have to be split appear.  The have to be sequential the the example is missing episode 2 so you can not do S01E01-E03 or what ever multi-episode naming you use.

[Carlo 4561]

How is it not true?

The KB article says nothing about anything like this and only talks about sequential episodes.
If anyone reads it differently then we DO NEED to clarify it more as multi episodes do need to be sequential and part of the same season.

S01E01-E03 means there are 3 episodes combined together. They cover episode 1 through episode 3.