So I was going through my collection to see which movies were in need of a resolution upgrade, so I set plex movies in list view an hit the resolution column in order to sort them.
First I see SD and 480p and 576p, shouldn’t these be all categorized as SD or should there be a SD at all? 720p’s and over are not categorized as HD after all.
Second, what is SD from the plex point of view anyway? 480p? below 480p?
Finally, the sorting is all over the place, check the screenshot, SD, 480p, 576p all the way up to 720p are all weirdly sorted out. Does Plex sort after the real resolution, ie 720x100 (72000px) is smaller than 576x400 (230400px)
hm, this post should be in the plex public forum, sorry
That doesn’t look right. That field is just a label and has nothing to do with the real resolution. Working fine for me so I don’t know. Please provide server and Web versions.
Server 1.9.4.4325
Web 3.27.1
Just upgraded, the problem persist with Web Version 3.27.1 and Server Version 1.9.7.4441
It seems the sorting list don’t work too good either.
- If I choose resolution as SD, it shows both SD and some 576p.
- If I chose 480p it shows 480p and some more 576p.
- 576p and over looks fine.
@“Youri Margarine” – you’re not alone in noticing the resolution inconsistencies when sorting. I have seen it too.
Some time ago, I asked about the resolution reported by Plex, and how it affected streaming to remote users. My concern was that both bitrate and resolution seemed to have a hand in deciding if the video would direct play or needed to be transcoded, particularly to Roku clients.
The thread quickly deteriorated into a very long and opinionated thread regarding what all the resolutions really were, and how to create video to match each person’s opinion. At some point in time, it was suggested by employees and/or ninjas that the best solution would be to lump 480p, 576p and SD into one class, that being SD.
My original question was never answered, but changes were made to the method used by Plex to determine resolution. And once implemented, direct play once again worked when streaming to Roku clients. I’m going to take a guess that how resolution was reported became a sore spot between the devs themselves, and was never really completed because there was never a general consensus. To be honest, it is not important to me, except for the fact that both resolution and bitrate are a determining factor in streaming for some clients, and I want direct play whenever possible.
I’m not usually a pessimist, but I don’t suspect addressing this glitch is high priority. I hope I’m wrong.
I am not able to reproduce either the filter or the sort having this inconsistency. All my lists look correct.
The only thing I can think is that the movies that do not belong were added during the time the 480/sd/576 argument was going on that @leelynds mentioned above. It’s possible these movies kept that “wrong” label. Can you provide the XML for one of these movies that is shown wrong?
I’m not sure if this will fix it but try to “analyze” the file.
Here are 3 xmls from movies in this list
Ok. Your XML’s are fine. Each movie is being detected properly. The only other thing I can think is that you have a corrupted database with one of the movies in that library which is resulting in the sort failing so it’s just giving you the default.
Would you mind PM’ing me your database file so I can check for that.
I have 7 movie libraries, and all of them sort in the same jumbled way when you choose sort by resolution. All seems fine until you get to anything below 720p, and then it just randomizes the the lower resolutions. Re-scanning the library or analyzing a file doesn’t seem to change anything. The libraries contain media added from late 2013 up until today’s date, and the randomness in the lower resolutions spans the whole time.
I can send my database file to you too, if you need another example to find a common error.
Perhaps it’s something in the way Plex determines the aspect ratio… for example, the XML for “Body Snatcher” above says it has a 1.85 aspect, but 1024X512 should be 2:1 aspect. Plex does label all 2:1 videos as 1.85, the same way all 2.4:1 videos are reported as 2.35:1 Just a label, seems to play and display correctly, but not exactly accurate.
Ok. I was wrong. The list is not sorting by the label, but is using the actual height of the video. So getting strange results is a product of how these things are getting labeled. So, the sort is correct, just that we then show the label which doesn’t fit. This is easily noticeable at the lower resolutions.
720x400 (576)
1280x460 (720) <- this would be a stupidly made aspect ratio file, but just to point out the logic
640x480 (480)
I’ll check with the team how best to handle this.
