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Riversiderepeat

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Post Wed May 07, 2025 7:48 pm

Unexpeccet presentation of multiplle ffiles

I just encountered a weird phenomenon involving file names and how they end up displaying to end users. I'm assuming this is intentional?

I have some MP4 files of a seminar. There are four files of sessions throughout a day. When I copy them over to Serviio I might normally name them 1 through 4 with a descriptor like "Morning Part 1" - "Morning Part 2" etc. I keep the 1 - 4 digits at the beginning of the filenames to keep them sorted properly.

Today I got lazy and dumped four files into a folder with the descriptor as name and simply named the files within "Part1" - "Part2" etc.

When I went to view the files in Roku Media, I could only see Part1, but Part1 was actually the entirety of all four files appearing as a single file. I wasn't sure if it were Roku or Serviio that was doing this so I logged into remote access in Firefox and it appeared exactly the same there too. They all appear as one file called Part1, with the entire length of all four files under a single icon.

When the names are changed to "1-Morning Part 1" etc, they all appear as individual files again.

Is this by design?
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atc98092

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Post Wed May 07, 2025 11:57 pm

Re: Unexpeccet presentation of multiplle ffiles

Yes, Serviio has the ability to join files labeled as Part1, etc. It's labeled Video Stacking, and here's the page that describes the function:
https://www.serviio.org/index.php?optio ... 9&catid=10

You can disable file stacking in the Serviio console under the Delivery/Stacking tab.
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Riversiderepeat

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Post Sat May 10, 2025 1:28 am

Re: Unexpeccet presentation of multiplle ffiles

Excellent! Thank you! No need to disable. I foresee future uses for this feature . I just never knew it was there, otherwise I wouldn't have used this naming convention in this particular case. Thanks again!
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Yes it's old. Yes it's outdated. No I'm not going to upgrade. I make it work anyway, and it does.

So far... 8-)

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