I’m trying to add my home videos using a Photo Library because the Timeline view is pretty nice. No matter what I do, the year for all of them is 1969, meaning the timeline basically can’t be used. How do I get the year to populate using the file’s timestamp. It seems to work ok with pictures, bu…

@gregstanley1 said: I’m trying to add my home videos using a Photo Library because the Timeline view is pretty nice. No matter what I do, the year for all of them is 1969, meaning the timeline basically can’t be used. How do I get the year to populate using the file’s timestamp. It seems to wor…

I put the MediaInfo output for 3 videos below. Two have the bug, one does not. The ones that do not work are missing date fields, such as Encoded_Date, Tagged_Date, and com.apple.quicktime.creationdate. 00041.MTS.txt Shows 1969 in Plex: Yes File date modified timestamp: July 5, 2015 08:22:04 AM …

@brandon.arnold said: I put the MediaInfo output for 3 videos below. Two have the bug, one does not. The ones that do not work are missing date fields, such as Encoded_Date, Tagged_Date, and com.apple.quicktime.creationdate. 00041.MTS.txt Shows 1969 in Plex: Yes File date modified timestamp: Ju…

@sa2000 said: Could you tell me if camera upload was used in getting any of these videos to the library? No, Plex camera upload was not used. PMS was installed onto my QNAP and pointed at the multimedia directory. The media has until now accumulated through file copy operations, email, or saving…

@sa2000 Is this defect a priority for the next release? Is there a date planned for the next release?

Same problem. Pretty obvious what’s going on. The media metadata is the source of dates, but not all cameras put the date metadata into their media.

@brandon.arnold said: @sa2000 Is this defect a priority for the next release? Is there a date planned for the next release? I have no information on this. It has been raised with the development team and it will get looked into

@brandon.arnold said: Same problem. Pretty obvious what’s going on. The media metadata is the source of dates, but not all cameras put the date metadata into their media. Could you tell me the library category these videos are in And the version of Plex Media Server that is being used

@sa2000 said: Could you tell me the library category these videos are in And the version of Plex Media Server that is being used Apologies, I did not see your response a few days ago. The category is “Pics and Videos”. The PMS version is 1.5.5.3634. The hardware is a QNAP TVS-473 NAS. -Brando…

Home videos added as a Photo library - year is always 1969

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aeonx May 7, 2017, 9:22pm 10

Could this be related to this thread? https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1434238

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Home videos added as a Photo library - year is always 1969

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