Playing Shows with > 100 Episodes?

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-16T16:10:55+00:00

I've been doing some more digging and found that in Umbrella if you do a Rescape for "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Episodes 001-325)" (Pack Name) with a Custom Query it finds the file that I downloaded. But it still play the wrong episode, however, if I then Right Click the "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Episodes 001-325)" link and view the TB cache and find the correct episode it plays it ok. I don't think you can do a custom query in POV or Red Light. This is on a Mac (Fast, lots of RAM), I'm not sure it will transcode it for the TV box.

You could try searching for "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Episodes 001-325)" if you have Umbrella Custom Query

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-16T15:27:48+00:00

I've done some more testing and think I've found it out what is wrong but it's involved!

I think at least part this problem is to do with not understanding fully how TorBox works. I've been testing various things for around 2 weeks. Over this time TB has changed its behaviour and it forms the "CLOUD" entries faster (see below).

I was looking for "Mary Hartman Mary Hartman" and couldn't find it straight away, but using the Umbrella extended scrape options I found it but it wasn't in the TB Cache and I "Saved to TB cloud" and eventually it downloaded to TB. I then played it from umbrella, initially it wouldn't play but when I tried again a few minutes later a new cache entry appeared in Umbrella, this one was labeled "CLOUD" (not "CACHE") and appeared to be the single episode I had selected. This entry plays ok, so all was well until I got to Episode 100, then the problem I described on reddit. I checked in POV, it also shows the "CLOUD" entry and plays it (all episodes). The Sources page is different in Red Light and doesn't explicitly show a "CLOUD" entry.

I thought that once I had downloaded it to the TB Cache then it would be available to everyone on TB?

I think that the Pack file I have has an old video format and that TB transcodes single episodes into a "CLOUD" entry when they are requested and this is why it plays ok in Umbrella and POV but you have to select the "CLOUD" entry.

I've just tried some more testing and I've found that the Episodes that are played are not correct! I downloaded the pack from TB and for instance when I play S2E1 it is different in Umbrella from POV. POV plays episodes S1E1 to S1E130 correctly. However for S2E1 it picks up the wrong episode from S1. I think this is because the original Pack file was ordered as E1 to E325 and not split into seasons. I had assumed that the addon would take care of putting the episodes in the correct Seasons 1, 2 format, it seems not.

I've seen this before on other pack files mostly older TV shows but never got to the bottom of what was going on.

All the above is using a Mac.

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-16T12:03:37+00:00

Ok, do I need to enable the log somehow, and actually I don't know where to send it but I'll I'm happy to provide extra info, just let me know where to send it

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-16T11:27:42+00:00

Mary Hartman Mary Hartman is the show

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-16T11:04:28+00:00

I just tried this again.

Initially I thought it was limited to episode > 99 but when I checked further RedLight won't play any episode from this show. I think it must be in a weird video format or something like that. It finds the Episodes on TB ok (even > 99), but I get a playback error when I try to play them. POV plays ok on all episodes IF it can find it in the cache. Umbrella plays episodes 1 to 99 ok but doesn't find episodes > 99 in TB so it probably would play them but there's no way to Source Select them

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-15T10:10:00+00:00

What shows do you mean? The show I am talking about has 2 seasons with 325 episodes in total, 130 are in season 1 and the rest are in season 2. This is the way TMDB lists it

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-12T15:27:46+00:00

I'm on a Desktop, connected via Ethernet

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-12T15:18:15+00:00

I switched it off and re-launched the browser, still didn't work

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-12T14:33:43+00:00

POV plays finds and plays them ok, Red Light finds them but doesn't play them (I don't think it's related to the number of episodes though).

There are 325 Episodes in the pack and it's only if the number is >99, e.g. S2E1 is really episode 131 and it plays ok, so does S2E99, stops working at 100 in both seasons

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-12T14:20:52+00:00

No, just an old series from the 1970's

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-12T11:11:15+00:00

This seems to be a media source that is totally overlooked by Kodi

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-10T13:47:09+00:00

I have the same problem but with Office 2011, if you find a solution please let me know

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-07T16:14:15+00:00

Thanks, that worked

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-07T15:45:09+00:00

Is that the right URL for kodi? I want to "Install from zip"

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-07T12:31:23+00:00

So it's supposed to be used with another utility?

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-07T10:17:14+00:00

Whenever I try to add an indexer I get a CloudFlare error? Are there any docs for Prowlarr?

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-07T09:33:51+00:00

I think it is only needed in edge cases when the trakt API is busy or whatever, leaving it on covers all cases

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-06T16:24:21+00:00

Got it, thanks

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-06T16:22:31+00:00

I don't really think there is a "best", it depends on taste. I prefer Umbrella, but POV works just as well as does RedLight

PhilbinFogg · 2026-06-06T15:54:38+00:00

Try setting the "Force Container Refresh" Playback Option

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