Is stacking working?

[sunscream]

Just wanted to know if anyone has gotten stacking to work on movies. I'm running latest alpha .9.6.

Another issue I had is I was able to see the folders in browse video before, but now I'm not.

[agentlame]

what is 'stacking'?

[sunscream]

Stacking is when you have a movie, such as an .avi, split into 2 CDs so it will be movie-cd1.avi and movie-cd2.avi. Boxee supposedly links them together so it will play cd2 right after cd1 finishes. Actually, I think XBMC does that but not sure if Boxee does.

[bmoura]

Stacking is when you have a movie, such as an .avi, split into 2 CDs so it will be movie-cd1.avi and movie-cd2.avi. Boxee supposedly links them together so it will play cd2 right after cd1 finishes. Actually, I think XBMC does that but not sure if Boxee does.

Hmm, I always thought that was called "Joining".

[sunscream]

Whatever it's called. Anyone get it to work?

[marcel]

yes stacking /joining merging is working to have them merged you need to name your movie files -part1 and part2 or -CD1 and -CD2 (or a dot instead of a dash)

examples

DieHard-part1.avi
DieHard-part2.avi
ToyStory.part1.avi
ToyStory.part2.avi
UrbanLegend-CD1.avi
UrbanLegend-CD2.avi
X-Men.CD1.avi
X-Men.CD2.avi

[Helmi]

Marcel, what should be the result of that?

What i have is a 3-part-movie that get's 'stacked' but the result isn't really usable - it packs them together into one folder-like thing and cut's all the numbers from the filenames.

So out of movie-part1.mkv, movie-part2.mkv and movie-part3.mkv i just get "movie" with the correct cover but when i click it i see 3 identical movies with the same cover and no information which one is which part and have to guess (it isn't ordered by part numbers).

Is there any way to just make it look like one movie and play it starting from part1 (and ideally automatically play the other parts one after the other)?

[sunscream]

yes stacking /joining merging is working to have them merged you need to name your movie files -part1 and part2 or -CD1 and -CD2 (or a dot instead of a dash)

examples

DieHard-part1.avi
DieHard-part2.avi
ToyStory.part1.avi
ToyStory.part2.avi
UrbanLegend-CD1.avi
UrbanLegend-CD2.avi
X-Men.CD1.avi
X-Men.CD2.avi

Her Marcel. Is there anyway to adjust the regex or whatever this looks for? I have a lot of 2 cds named different like "blah-blah.cd1.avi" I suppose those don't stack? At least it didn't when I tried it just now on .9.6 alpha.

Any way to get boxee to look at the folder the file is in and regex on cd1/cd2/cd3 filenames?

[agentlame]

Her Marcel. Is there anyway to adjust the regex or whatever this looks for? I have a lot of 2 cds named different like "blah-blah.cd1.avi" I suppose those don't stack? At least it didn't when I tried it just now on .9.6 alpha.

Any way to get boxee to look at the folder the file is in and regex on cd1/cd2/cd3 filenames?

the only way to adjust the regex is to patch boxee's source.

here is an example patch: http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=3136

[John Doe]

Hmm didn't knew it was called stacking..

I made this request some time ago.. stacking is working for me, I just want a smoother switch between the movie parts (when using network streams)

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=3048

[sunscream]

Sorry to bring this up again, but I tried renaming the files like they were supposed to, but stacking still doesn't seem to be working for me. Any suggestions?

[whiteowl]

Sorry to bring this up again, but I tried renaming the files like they were supposed to, but stacking still doesn't seem to be working for me. Any suggestions?

You could get a video joiner/splitter like http://www.virtualdub.org/index.html (only works with avi) and join the parts together so as to make this a non-issue.