Mob City S01E05E06 HDTV x264-LOL

i'm curious about the file names of double episodes.
the season premier of hell on wheels was a double.
it used a hyphen: hell on wheels s03e01-e02
so far mob city has not used one.
is there a naming rule for this?

no.

lines 254-302 directory naming

the sd x264 tv releasing standards 2012
http://scenerules.irc.gs/n.html?id=2012_sdtvx264u1.nfo

does not directly address double episode naming, that is why we see variations.
..with or without a hyphen, sxxexxexx and s00exx-exx both forms are common.

thanks- i've been cleaning up my old files and deleting most but saving series i really like onto ext
hd's. i'm trying to standardize the labeling. for example some shows need to be relabeled because
they were releases preceding the adoption of current standards - eg the.office.9x15.(hdtv-x264-
lol which doesn't follow sxxexx and lacks the designation us. also there's classic series, like cheers
and twilight zone from dvd which never had scene releases for individual eps.

is there a rule for non-series specials? i've seen e00, but that's not a great choice imo, because
often they recap events (eg, s04e00 reveals events from s04e05) and should be placed within rather
than prior to other eps from that season. shows with webisodes, like the second bsg and big love,
present a similar quandary.

yep, that's another one that is not specified in the standards document.

i think sxxe00 should only be used for a pre-season show, and not mid season or after the season,
just as you mentioned...because it is numerically out of sequence. the format that i see used quite
a bit for mid season or end of season specials is:
show title - season number - "special" - description/title of the special.

some examples:

naked and afraid s01 special double jeopardy hdtv x264-w4f
twisted 2013 s01 special socio studies 101 hdtv x264-2hd
nashville 2012 s01 special the whole story hdtv x264-bajskorv
arrow s02 special year one hdtv x264-bajskorv
once upon a time s02 special magic is coming hdtv x264-bajskorv
scandal us s03 special-the secret is out hdtv x264-bajskorv

these follow a set pattern, even though they don't indicate when/where in the season they aired.

unless it's a seasonal special, then the season name goes before the word special:
christmas special, thanksgiving special, halloween special

but, there are many many variations. i also wish they would address this in the document.
i write regex strings to filter titles so they appear on show info pages...which is much easier when
there is consistency but with specials there are so many variables it gets way more difficult.
a simple regex example: ^mob.city.(((s[0-9]{2,3}|[0-9]{1,3}x)+(e[0-9]{2,3}|[0-9]{1,3})+)|
([0-9]{2,4}.[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2})|(20[0-9]{2}.e[0-9]{2}))[.-_]+ but this does not filter the damn
specials or some of the double episodes...and i end up having to ask the site admin to manually
link them to the show info pages...which because of his busy life can take days or weeks, or not at
all.

i'm hyphenating the numbers of the doubles because i add the episode titles and it makes sense
to me to use a hyphen to separate both the #'s and titles. so for example, i'm saving this as:
mob.city.s01e05-e06.oxpecker-stay.down.hdtv.x264-lol
which seems far preferable to:
mob.city.s01e05e06.oxpecker.stay.down.hdtv.x264-lol
because then it seems like there's one title that is a command for an oxpecker not to get up! :d

i agree that e00 works fine for specials which precede the season premier. unfortunately, a lot of
good shows are complicated and/or potentially confusing, so mideseason specials seem to be
much more common than they once were. (i think lost had 9!) my answer is to use the number of
the regular episode preceding it, and add an 'x' to the number, then precede the episode title with
the word 'extra' in all caps. here's an example:
cheers.s09e07.breaking.in.is.hard.to.do
cheers.s09e07x.extra.200th.anniversary.special
cheers.s09e08.bad.neighbor.sam
here, this is an hour long special of a half hour show, so some people number it as s09e08 and
others consider it a double: s09e08-09. [curiously, the actual 200th episode was s09e06]

or to take a contemporary example with scene releases for individual episodes, consider one of the
lost specials: lost.s05.a.journey.in.time.recap.special.hdtv.xvid-2hd. i think that's a really
bad option, because that not only puts it at the beginning of the season where it doesn't belong,
but it gets listed before the first special of the season
(lost s05e00.destiny.calls.hdtv.divx), which makes no sense at all.
so, i think this works better:
lost.s05e15.hdtv.xvid-notv
lost.s05e15x.extra.a.journey.in.time.hdtv.xvid-2hd
lost.s05e16-e17.the.incident.hdtv.xvid-fqm
is notv dead, btw?

i don't know if adding the letter 'x' would mess up the works for the scene somehow, but it
preserves the proper order of the episodes. i think 'extra' already is used as a tag for non-
season sporting events, so imo it's consistent to use it for what aren't really ordinary season
episodes. most of these shows are farmed out to other production companies - so they aren't
even made by the same people who create the regular show. these are almost always recap shows
that don't advance the story, or they're made from a real world perspective with interviews and
behind the scenes material, so they're what we'd usually think of as dvd extras anyway.

ps: does anyone have a suggestion for webisodes that come between regular season eps instead of
between seasons?

also, fwiw i'm a little disappointed that the scene decided to release everything with a capital 's' and
'e.' it seems to me that there was a time when lower case wasn't uncommon, eg. s04e11. i'm
thinking of changing my files to the lower case because visually it's a lot easier to pick out numbers
from a string of characters when they're set off with lower case letters- plus you're not likely to
misread 's' as a '5' as you are with 's.' it'd be pretty tedious, though. there's probably a way to
switch all of them at once, but i don't know how.