We have tested all sorts of interesting scenarios within Plex and have found some interesting little things that have popped up over time. This one, made us chuckle quite a bit. Not so funny if kids saw it though.
Scenario, a library of “Videos - Kids” allowing for a collection of all sorts of kid-friendly media that we ripped from various discs/VHS into the collection. One of the movies/videos, however, was badly miss-matched. It was “The Legend of Zelda: Power of the Triforce”, which was miss-matched with a thumbnail and movie information of “Us” (2013), which has an inappropriate thumbnail/poster for kids.
So I wonder, how it made such a wide mistake in matching there. We have noticed a number of titles that haven’t been getting matched at all recently, having us to manually do a search, which has been odd as it used to only happen once in a blue moon. However, this experience takes the cake lol. We wound up removing the file completely as the DVD was actually a compilation of episodes from the series anyway. So we are going to try to get the entire series so it is complete (only missing a few dvds anyway).
Update: Just had another one.
File: Mortal (2020).avi
Matched as: It Watches (2016)
Filed under movies, pulling from the propper databases and everything. At first I thought it was because it was an import (Norway) and that maybe it was because my friend got his hands on it a little early when he shipped it out. Nope. Pops right up in both Plex and IMDb databases just fine when you manually match it.
As mentioned in my first port, it is a DVD but it is technically a compilation of a number of episodes. Either way, how can it get one title from the other when it is so far from each other in matches.
Sure.
U:\TV - Kids\The Legend Of Zelda - Power Of The Triforce (DVD).avi
I try to keep all file names simple and to the point, and include which media I ripped it to the network from (in case I need to track it down quickly for whatever reason–like, the rip was corrupted or something and I need to redo it).
They are portrayed a little differently on the DVD. They aren’t split up for some reason. I’d have to edit the video. Anyway, as mentioned, I already removed the file. Going to buy the missing discs and break it into a project like that into individual episodes. Or…I just won’t and will have them as DVDs only (just because this one is being a pain).
Regardless…still odd that it would match it to a completely different name that has nothing to do with the title what-so-ever. Usually, if it can’t find something, it just creates a random thumbnail from the video and titles it by the file name, showing it wasn’t matched. But this…this is a strange one.
Usually, there are chapter markers on the episode breaks. If you use the right ripping software, they are preserved in the ripped file.
Which you can then use to split the file: [HowTo]: splitting multi-episode files with MKVtoolnix GUI
Oh I know. I have ripped plenty of episodes from various box sets. However, this one comes out as one chapter and nothing else to help with the process. One file. This one will require editing sadly. I think they rushed these DVDs out into the world because they just didn’t care much about anything.
Update: Just had another one.
File: Mortal (2020).avi
Matched as: It Watches (2016)
Filed under movies, pulling from the propper databases and everything. At first I thought it was because it was an import (Norway) and that maybe it was because my friend got his hands on it a little early when he shipped it out. Nope. Pops right up in both Plex and IMDb databases just fine when you manually match it.
