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Revision as of 09:55, 6 August 2013
General topics | Videos | Management Navigation |
Naming files |
File stacking |
XBMC's file stacking feature handles your multi-part videos 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.
How does file stacking work?
The stacking function is presented with a list of file items from a directory listing.
- Sort the file list alphabetically.
- PART1, PART2, ..., PART9 directories are collapsed if they contain only one video file.
- Each filename is tokenized into Title, Volume, Ignore and Extension parts.
- For each consecutive filename where all tokens except Volume match, the file's index in the file list is stored in a vector.
- Once the above condition fails...
- The stack path is generated (eg. "stack://movie-part1.mkv , movie-part2.mkv")
- The stack name is created from the Title Ignore and Extension tokens (eg. movie.mkv)
- The path and label of the first file item are replaced by the stack path and stack name, respectively.
- The remaining file items in the stack are removed from the file list.
- This continues until the file list is exhausted.
Stacking name extensions
The following are default stacking extensions that can be added to file names
# can be 1 through 9 or A through D. No spaces between the "part" and number.
part#
cd#
dvd#
pt#
disk#
disc#
You can also use:
- moviename#.ext
where # can be A through D.
Limits
- Stacking is currently only applied to movies.
- Stacking is currently only applied to filenames, not the full path.
- 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...
- Use a dir-per-movie directory layout, see the append example of the moviestacking advanced setting.
- Rename offending files to match one of the more specific volume tokens (ie. cd1, part1, etc).
- Create special-case regular expressions for those files that fail to stack (see #Fine tuning).
Fine tuning
File stacking can be tuned by the user to match obscure cases using the moviestacking advancedsettings.xml setting:
- <moviestacking>
File Stacking multiple CD's forum thread discussion |