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Hi,

Currently metabrowser does not support multiple episodes in a single file, your best route would be to split the episodes into 2 files so it is compatible w/ metabrowser and your frontend.

Take Care

Hmm well that's disappointing.

Do you plan on adding this feature in the future? Because to me it doesn't make sense to split the files. They we're intented to be like 2 episodes in 1.

I appreciate the fast reply tho.

Double episodes are quite common, for say - Pilot episodes.

Having the ability to either have metabrowser detect the naming scheme ( E01E02, seems to be a defacto standard that's understood ), or the ability to "merge" two episodes, would make the ability to manage shows that do this much easier.

I'm happy to lodge a feature request, if nobody has done so already.

Hey golgy,

Yes please add it as a feature request.

Take Care

Has anything changed regarding double episodes since this thread was opened?

Hey,

No, this has not been a priority on my list.

MediaBrowser does not support multiple episodes, as the xml requires a numeric <episodenumber> and can be only one value....so the best that will happen is that descriptions can be merged and title can be changed, but fetching/displaying etc in the gui for a structure like MediaBrowser's gets tricky.

XBMC does have support for multiple episodes in the xml, as the xml can contain multiple episode nodes identifying the episodes contained in one file..but, the way they have their xml structured is not proper xml as there is no root xml element.

Thus far I have just recommended to split the episodes into separate files.

Take Care

I was going to argue this but after thinking it over, I think until Media Browser supports this the best thing to do is to split files as you suggest.

You can also edit them manually for XBMC.
Take metabrowser resulting xml <episodedetails> element for both episodes and put them inside a <tvshow> element in the NFO. Use the <epbookmark> element to adjust the beginning of the next segment(in seconds).

Example(News.S10E20E21.Part - 1 + Part - 2.nfo):

 1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 2 <tvshow>
 3   <episodedetails>
 4     <title>Part - 1</title>
 5     <episode>20</episode>
 6     <season>10</season>
 7     <epbookmark>0</epbookmark>
 8     <plot><![CDATA[Part 1 of the episode]]></plot>
 9   </episodedetails>
10   <episodedetails>
11     <title>Part - 2</title>
12     <episode>21</episode>
13     <season>10</season>
14     <epbookmark>1333</epbookmark>
15     <plot><![CDATA[Part 2 of the episode]]></plot>
16   </episodedetails>
17 </tvshow>

Hey abeloin,

Thanks for the info, so does putting a <tvshow> root node above the <episodedetails> still work in XBMC? It is able to read the local metadata?

Edit: to add, luke is using MediaBrowser not XBMC.

Take Care

Yes it does work in XBMC, basically you can put whatever element name you want (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=59111) but I prefer using <tvshow> to follow the import/export format.

Oops, I forgot to mention this was for XBMC not MediaBrowser. Sorry for the confusion. I've corrected my previous comment.