Can you please let me know what scanner or agent to use for nfo in Plex and exactly how to set it up? I think elsewhere in this forum people say I need to use a 3rd party NFO scanner not a plex one, but it sounds like the latest version of Plex now supports this?
I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation in the last 24-48 hours, even scanning my current library with Emby and Jellyfin to see what they do. I like that Jellyfin can play .ts files so no need to convert to .mp4 or .mkv. I like that both Emby and Jellyfin will take the file name and use it for the name of the video (unlike Plex) - this gets back to answering my original question. However, I like the Plex GUI the best, and it seems to run on Nvidia the best.
I’ve also been asking the moderators of tvdb and moviedb how they want to handle fitness videos. The bottom line is that I do want to use either of these databases (most likely moviedb) and pull down the info (images, metadata including the summary, actors etc) - but they only support listing each excercise video as a “movie”. I tried scanning my media folder as type MOVIE in plex and then I get a mess - all the videos in one folder".
So I think maybe I’ll have to go back to using TV shows in plex, but then creating nfo files for each episode. In that nfo file I’d like to just put the moviedb id number, no need to put anything else. Then it will pull that down and I should be OK. But all of this depends on being able to use nfo files in Plex and be able to easily install or configure an agent to support it. Thanks!
Update: i did get it to work in Plex - thanks. I just had to use Mp3tag to edit the title metadata. Or I found i can edit the title metadata in VLC also, very cool. Except in Plex the file does need to be an .mp4 for this to work - and I had converted at least 1/2 of my videos to .mkv
The 3rd party “NFO Importer” agent will read all the info from the NFO file. I don’t know if it is still being maintained by the creator but the original thread is Here. Plex’s official agents will only read the IMDB ID.
Correct. Plex only reads the title tag from MP4 files. MKV’s use a different tagging system that Plex can’t read.
If your files are using the mp4 container,
and they are all using the same file name structure
you can tell mp3tag to take the episode title from the file name and embed it into the title meta tag of the mp4 file.
What did you use to convert to .mp4? I like the ffmpeg tool.
For editing the metadata, use the mp3tag windows program. Be sure to save the file. It will put those tags in guaranteeed. To have plex pick up those tags you may need to also set something (not sure, in Emby it is a checkbox called “prefer in built metadata in local files”)
But I tried manually converting one of them to MP4 and setting the title metadata, but Plex didn’t pick it up.