I’m not sure if you’re experiencing the same issue as addressed here, but have a look at this suggestion from earlier in this thread; maybe it will help.
Ahhh, will do, sorry such a long thread.
Hmm, well I see what that discussion is doing, but that fix still doesn’t match up to the correct listing for episodes for me.
Hi Guys. I feel like I am missing something with the Local Extras of the Beta TV Series Scanner. I Have tried two different methods of adding local extra’s at the show level, and one way for season level. I have the folder and file structure as below but I cannot see any of these Extras on the Web or on my android mobile client. Am I crazy, missing something, or are these just missing from the client side.
/Outlander (2014)
Outlander Untold 1 - Young Ian Wins Rollo-short.mkv
Outlander Untold 4 - Tea for Two-short.mkv
/Shorts
Outlander Untold 1 - Young Ian Wins Rollo.mkv
Outlander Untold 4 - Tea for Two.mkv
/Features
Outlander Untold 1 - Young Ian Wins Rollo.mkv
Outlander Untold 4 - Tea for Two.mkv
/Season 04
Outlander (2014) - S04E01 - America the Beautiful.mkv
/Featurettes
Outlander Untold 1 - Young Ian Wins Rollo.mkv
Outlander Untold 4 - Tea for Two.mkv
** Note: I did not use all of these at one time.
On a first look the shorts should be ok/working. Plex doesn’t however deal with a Features extra category (should be Featurettes or -featurette)
Local extras should be visible on all levels using Android/iOS mobile clients (I suppose that means the mobile view for Android). You should see the local extras on the show level when using Plex Web.
Make sure you have local extras enabled in the advanced library options and refresh the metadata after adding/renaming your extras.
Oops, I typed featurettes in my post, not my folders.
But metadata refresh was the bit I was missing to get them to show, Thanks
I don’t know what that means? The scanner will only pick up files with valid extensions (video files).
Could you elaborate what your ordering is?
hello,
is this new agent/scanner supposed to preserve EPG data on the recordings when added to the library ?
The reason i ask - i abandoned Plex DVR because in the past it did not.
Plex DVR insisted on ALWAYS replacing my EPG data in the library.
So when i made a recording - the metadata i saw in the EPG - was not the same metadata I saw in the library (once the recording was complete)
I always had enhanced EPG guide off - since i create my own XMLTV file.
That behaviour hasn’t changed but I agree that’s not ideal (we currently only preserve EPG data when you’re using the Plex EPG).
I’ll file an issue for this.
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Thanks for quick response !
That’s a pity - so Plex DVR + Plex Agents - 5 years on after DVR introduction still treating XMLTV as 2nd class customers
Especially since you abandoned many countries with the new EPG and forcing customers to scramble to find alternatives with XMLTV.
I dont understand rationale behind this - more importantly when Enhance Guide is turned off - why does Plex think we want “Enhanced” recordings ?
With shows that have multiple segments (a lot of PBS Kids shows like Daniel Tiger, Elinor Wonders Why, etc), where there are essentially 2 15-minute segments in a single episode the data is incorrect. This has been an issue with TheTVDB as well.
What is happening is that the first episode should have 2 titles in the main title field. For the S01E01 of Daniel Tiger, the episode name should actually be “Daniel’s Birthday; Daniel’s Picnic”.
Instead, what is happening in the new agent (and TheTVDB) is that the data is coming through like this:
- S01E01 - Daniel’s Birthday
- S01E02 - Daniel’s Picnic
So for a 40-episode first season, there’s realistically only 20 episodes worth of data.
Both TMDB and TVDB have these as separate episodes:
You’ll need to name the episodes something like Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood/Season 01/Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - S01E01-E02 - Daniel's Birthday & Daniel's Picnic.mp4
I had the same issue, and worked around it here:
@OttoKerner had the solution for me.
I now record all PBS Kids shows into a separate Library.
If they were 15 minutes - and twice as many of them - they’d be right.
TVDB is wrong (well, technically). Daniel’s Birthday is 15 minutes, not 30. Same for Picnic. They air 2 at a time on most networks, but those are indeed two different episodes:
Of course, TVDB can’t be wrong.
So… we have this (look around).
If you have to match at TVDB - it’s gonna take a work-around.
So it just worked that when looking at names & number of episodes this show listing lined up almost perfectly, so I went with it.
So it’s working correctly then now?
nope, it’s still glitching.
So I tried to do the directed search of “tvdb-71554” which should be the correct show, but … when I do that it instead finds what is tvdb-100741 and gives me that option.
I thought they might have been flipped for some reason, but it appears that searching for either only gives the result of the 100741 series.
For some reason I can’t seem to find the matching option in the search, granted there are a bunch of similar entry’s spread across the various databases, so this is a real outlier for it not being able to match.
Thanks for the hint - but that is not a workaround. I’m not 100% clear what your issue was - but the suggestion certainly doesnt keep the EPG in the library when XMLTV is the EPG data provider.
I just tried it:
1, Created the new TV shows library
2, Set the agent and scanner to the new plex tv series agent
3, record a tv show (Champions League S8E4 According to my XMLTV provider Real Madrid vs Liverpool)
Once the recording is complete and moved into the library - the metadata from EPG is gone and its overwritten by theTVDB data (which is incorrect, of course)
When i create the new library using the Personal TV series scanner - the theTVDB matching doesnt happen - but the EPG metadata is also gone - so no metadata at all in the library.
IN short, there is no way to keep the EPG metadata (if you use XMLTV) in any Plex library IF there is a close enough theTVDB match.
Yet I am keeping the EPG metadata. You didn’t do step two properly. I have used this successfully with XMLTV as the EPG provider. The EPG metadata is always retained.
And don’t forget to edit your existing recording jobs and set the target library to our newly created tv shows library.
I’m pretty sure its not working - it has never worked for anyone and it’s been confirmed multiple times by Plex that its not supposed to work. If it works for you, consider yourself lucky - because it certainly is some sort of bug (where Plex is confused and thinks your EPG is coming from Plex EPG instead of XMLTV)
I just recreated the library to prove my point - here are the screenshots:
I also should add - i’m using latest PMS
