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| <section begin=intro />XBMC's file stacking feature handles your multi-part files in a clean, intuitive manner. File stacking combines your multi-part files into a single item in the file list or library. Playback of stacks is completely transparent to you as the user, all parts are automatically queued for playback in order. Stacking is a view option available in videos file mode window. It is always applied when scanning movies into the library.<section end=intro />
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| == How does file stacking work? ==
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| The stacking function is presented with a list of file items from a directory listing.
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| # Sort the file list alphabetically.
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| # CD1, CD2, ..., CD9 directories are collapsed if they contain only one video file.
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| # Each filename is tokenized into Title, Volume, Ignore and Extension parts.
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| # For each consecutive filename where all tokens '''except''' Volume match, the file's index in the file list is stored in a vector.
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| # Once the above condition fails...
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| ## The stack path is generated (eg. "stack://movie-cd1-xvid.avi , movie-cd2-xvid.avi")
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| ## The stack name is created from the Title Ignore and Extension tokens (eg. movie-xvid.avi)
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| ## The path and label of the first file item are replaced by the stack path and stack name, respectively.
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| ## The remaining file items in the stack are removed from the file list.
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| # This continues until the file list is exhausted. | |
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| == Fine tuning ==
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| File stacking can be tuned by the user to match obscure cases using the [[Advancedsettings.xml#.3Cmoviestacking.3E|moviestacking]] advancedsettings.xml setting:
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| {{#lsth:advancedsettings.xml|<moviestacking>}}
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| == Deficiencies ==
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| * Stacking is currently only applied to movies.
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| * Stacking is currently only applied to filenames, not the full path.
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| * The default expressions will NOT stack files which use only a number as the volume token (eg movie1.avi, movie2.avi). This is intentional due to false positives which can occur with sequels in a flat directory layout. Some solutions to this problem (in order of best to worst) follow...
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| # Use a dir-per-movie directory layout, see the '''append''' example of the [[Advancedsettings.xml#.3Cmoviestacking.3E|moviestacking]] advanced setting.
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| # Rename offending files to match one of the more specific volume tokens (ie. cd1, part1, etc).
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| # Create special-case regular expressions for those files that fail to stack (see [[#Tuning|tuning]]).
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| [[Category:XBMC Manual]]
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| [[Category:Video Library]]
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