dvd folder and vobs - controlling display of all vobs in smart lists

[Paul]

Glad it's working. Internally, the file path of gapless multi-files do start with #title, so that can be used in smart playlists for finding your gapless multi-files (i.e. DVD videos or gapless music).

[arrbee99]

Thanks very much. will try to think up something more for you tomorrow.....

[andymoz]

Hi, - I was the original poster, but got side tracked by a new born !

This is getting closer to what I wanted to achieve - infact the 'title' naming in the path allows me to only show the DVD rips.... but what I wanted was to show all my main movies in the same smart list.
So, for example my avi/mkv and main DBD rips movies (with title) etc from multiple folders combined in one smart play list.

.... so what I really want is a filter which shows all main movies 'except' those shorter VOB files (so I don't have 25 entries for the same film)
Any thoughts on how to do this simply ?

[Paul]

Perhaps you could add [Duration] [is greater than] [01:00:00] to your smart playlist and this would restrict the playlist to list only those videos with a duration of greater than 1 hour (or whatever duration value you specify). This would remove the shorter, unwanted VOB files.

[andymoz]

The time limit was no good as all the different films and clips are all different lengths, so missed / selected ones I didn't want.

However - based on your explanation that the filename for the gapless multi files is not the 'real filename'.. I did this:

1) File path contains videos (to only get my rips instead of all the films that come with albums etc
2) File Name does not contain vts_
3) File Name does not contain video_ts

This seems to work for me and still includes the gapless multi main films (as the filename is not the real filename)...... as far as I can see with limited testing.

[Paul]

Glad you worked out a set of smart playlist rules that covers your movies

[arrbee99]

Hi Paul,

Don't know if its a 3.4.2 thing, but the Smart Playlist thing you gave me using the #title function (see earlier in the post), isn't working properly any more, see image...

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Mezzmo also seems to be ignoring the dvd's/vobs it shows quite happily under the folders\DVD's Full Copy item - they don't show up under Directors/Gendre etc. Have tried maintaining the library and every box is ticked under the metadata retrieval box thingy. Any ideas ?

Thanks very much