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The purpose of this HowTo is to split videofiles which contain more than one episode of a tv show into single-episode files. So they show up individually within plex, can be played individually and don’t produce any of the weird things that multi-episode files are plagued with.

  1. Mkvtoolnix Gui
Toolnix

The tool used is MKVtoolnixGUI
it is freely available for all major PC operating systems.

Therefore the container format of the output files will be MKV.
The input format can be a multitude of containers like AVI, MP4, MKV, MPEG, TS, DIVX and several more.
The quality of the files will remain the same, because mkvtoolnix only remuxes the files, it doesn’t re-encode them.

  • start up MKVtoolnixGUI
    (depending on your operating system, this might look a little bit different)

  • drag the multi-episode file into the window marked by my crude arrow

  • the video, audio and subtitle tracks it contains will appear in the window underneath it

  • you may want to revise the language code that is assigned to the audio track(s) and the language and ‘forced’ attribute of subtitle tracks so the Plex interface informs you correctly about the languages available.
    Plex’s automatic audio and subtitle track selection feature relies also on these tags to work correctly.
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  • change to the Output tab:

  • change ‘Split mode’ to ‘after specific timecodes’

  • input the timecode of the episode break into the field ‘timecodes’ (you can input several timecodes [separated by comma] if your source videofile contains more than two episodes)
    (I chose to split after 25 seconds, because my example file is only 59 seconds long)

  • revise the path and filename in ‘Output file’ to your needs

  • click Start muxing

You should find 2 or more MKV files in the destination path, their file names appended by a three figure number (DVD Introduction-scene-001.mkv and DVD Introduction-scene-002.mkv for our example file in the screenshots)

Toolnix

Free manager for MKV files MKVToolNix is a free MKV manager that lets you create, edit, and view MKV files in a graphical user interface. The freeware is an open source project developed by Moritz Bunkus that lets you modify the application in the C programming language. Softonic International, S.A. Holds the license to use the name and logo of Filehippo. دانلود ابزار فایل های ویدیویی MKV با امکانات مختلف (برای ویندوز) MKVToolnix 52.0.0 Windows. حتما با فرمت ویدیویی MKV آشنایی دارید، این فرمت برای فیلم هایی با کیفیت بالا و حجم کم مورد استفاده قرار میگیرد. بر خلاف تصور بیشتر کاربران، MKV. MKVToolNix is a small collection of tools (mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract, mkvpropedit and mmg) that allows you to manipulate Matroska (MKV) files in several ways. You can use MKVToolNix to create, split, edit, mux, demux, merge, extract or inspect Matroska files.

Now rename the split episode files according to the Plex naming guide for tv show episodes and add them into your library.

Mkvtoolnix

Done.

If you set above as ‘Split mode’ = “Before Chapters”, you can split your files on chapter markers.
This is particularly useful when you have ripped tv shows and you got only one monolithic file instead of one file for each episode.

MP4tools is the part of the VIDEOtoolbox Suite of Applications used for the creation and editing of MP4 videos. It was primarily designed for processing videos files for use in hardware capable of playing MP4 or M4V videos, such as the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and PS3. As the name might imply, MP4tools is a graphical interface for a variety of tools useful for processing video files.

Features:

  • Convert from a variety of video file formats like MKV, MP4, OGM and AVI into MP4 videos.
  • Can convert most videos without having to re-encode the video track and/or the audio track, so processing takes minutes instead of hours and no quality is lost.
  • Simplified, intuitive user interface that takes the guess work out of processing MP4 videos.
  • Ability to convert various surround sound audio to 5.1 AC3 or 5.1 AAC.
  • Intuitively select desired video, audio and/or subtitle tracks to process, with the ability to verify the selections using video preview.
  • Use presets for one step encoding for playback on common hardware such as the iPhone and Apple TV.
  • Define presets for one step automated encoding and track selections settings
  • Burn (i.e., hard code) subtitle tracks into the video, or mux (soft subtitles) from internal tracks or from external subtitle files commonly found on the internet.
  • Split MP4 videos into segments of a specified file size or by start/end time.
  • Adjust the Pixel Aspect Ratio of MP4 videos.
  • Join MP4 videos.
  • Extract the selected tracks from MP4 videos as individual video and/or audio files.
  • Add jobs to a queue either individually or in batches via drag and drop so you can process multiple files overnight (registered copies only).
  • Apply one setting to a group of files for easy batch creations (registered copies only).
  • Enter a 'Watch Mode' for which MP4tools will process all videos placed in a defined folder (registered copies only).

System Requirements

MP4tools is Intel-only (64-bit) and requires Mac OS X 10.9.x or later. It has been tested on a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro with no known issues.

Acknowledgement

Mkvtoolnix Gui

A big thank you to Simone Pizzuti for coming up with the new and improved icon for MP4tools. If you like the result and are looking for a graphic designer or web designer, you can contact Simone at s.pizzuti@chromaticastudio.com.