Hi everyone,
I know it sounds like an odd request but I have dedicated section just for documentaries. Whilst most of it works with the TV agents some do need the MoveDB input for example Enron, Please remove your shoes etc.
I want them in the same section so would it be possible to add the movie DB to my TV Shows Scanner as an option?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I have this issue too. Many of my documentay cannot get artwork or info. Only BBC is ok.
Am having this exact problem… hopefully someone can sort it out. Other than this, it’s a great app.
Interesting. I’m working on my own metadata agent right now at TheVideosDB.com. I’ve thought about possibly combining our service to spit out both TV and movie metadata types but I’m unsure how Plex would handle it on their end. As a TV series, Plex would want Seasons and episodes under the seasons. I guess we can play around and see what happens…
I second this. I have a section called Documentaries, and it is a separate directory of videos. Some of them are episodic like the “Planet Earth” series (yet not seasonal), some are one off imax movies like “Super Speedway” and “Mystery of the Nile” and others are one off tv-screened shows such as PBS’s “Life in Death Valley” and BBC’s “China” (that is the hardest one to match, as there are dozens of separate programs with that same name).
My documentarties section is my messiest section by far. Most titles are not correctly matched, not found, or even if they are found and matched, they might not have posters or background art.
How might all of these discrepancies with documentaries, which are not going away, be fixed?
Solution Brainstorm
I think the solution for now is for us each to have to do a lot of manual work in matching and manually inputting the right names and images.
Down the line, it might make sense to rearchitect a metadata agent to allow it to pull data from both movies and tv shows.
Also, it would be nice to be able to choose Background and Poster art from an infinite amount of images drawn from the web. Seems right now it limits it to just what is on movieposterdb or just what is on tmdb.org, and only specific to the one version of the movie. If you keep scrolling over, it should start culling from other similarly titled movies, or google image search.
I too have a section called Documentaries just because they’re so different. It would be nice if there were a way for Plex to be able to handle this different category.
I really would like this as well. All my documentaries are all messed up
Same here. My Documentaries are a mess!!
Hey guys. Thought I'd revive this old thread as I've just started using Plex, and have exactly the same problems as everyone above regarding my dedicated documentary folder. I notice its been over a year since the OP brought this up, so I was wondering if there has been any progress on the suggestion of combining metadata agents? Its a real mess trying to manage docos in it's current form :(
Same here. My Documentaries are a mess. And no solution or workaround?
I've been trying my best to find a solution, but at the moment I've resorted to creating two Plex sections for the one Documentary folder. The first plex section I have named 'Docos 01' and is scraped with the movie database scrapers (which only picks up about 10% of them). The only way to access all of them is to create a second Plex section named Docos 02 which I use the TVdb scraper for (which scrapes content for about 40% of them, and also allows you to access all the files from Plex clients whether they have been scraped or not). The content not picked up, I'm just slowly, manually filling in data for.
If only Plex would allow TV and Movie scrapers for the same folder it would help enormously for sorting and scraping information for documentaries (given documentaries can be a cinema released film or a TV show).
my fellow plex users,
like you, i am a documentary enthouisiast and would like to have plex add metadata automatticly. First thing we need is a database for it. after a long search, i have found it: http://documentaryguide.com/. Second thing we need is an agent for it. As i am no programmer i can't write it myself, so i would kindly like to request if somebody could write one. For plex is the best thing i've come across for managing my library, and, even better: watch it directly from my 47' smart tv, hells yeah!
oh, that reminds me: the lg smart tv app doesn't have a watched tracker. i don't know whether this is missing from the smart tv app or just from plex itself but it would rock if it would have it.
The thing is, Plex handles movies and TV shows differently. I don't think it's possible to have both type of scanners in the same section. This would have to be worked out directly in Plex, not in the agents. (the TV show scanner looks for seasons and episodes while the movie scanner only handled single entities).
I got around this by having two different Documentaries sections, one for TV content, one for movie content. It's not perfect, and both sections are still a mess because most documentaries on TV are just not found by the agents, but at least it works for those that have entries in IMDB and thetvdb.com.
There are some odd issues with Documentaries, which often are one-shot. For example, BBC Documentaries have a generic TheTVDB show:
http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=79660&lid=7
Now, I have made my documentaries match the format required by Plex, for for example, a 1999 Documentary about Ian Drury is named
BBC Documentaries - 1999x01 - Ian Dury - On My Life.avi
But will it show up under Plex? No dice. I'm not sure what's causing it, but there are about 30 or so documentaries which are listed under that TheTVDB entry which are matched up, but the folder seems to list S01 and S19 (and there are really NO seasons named that on TheTVDB!)
So, where am I going wrong? :)
Just need to add the Season and Episode
BBC Documentaries - S1999E01 - Ian Dury - On My Life.avi
Just need to add the Season and Episode
BBC Documentaries - S1999E01 - Ian Dury - On My Life.avi
Nope. No dice with that format either. Everything else also from TheTVDB using 1x11 format also works fine, so this wouldn't really be a difference.
Just tried and this works perfect for me
BBC Documentaries\BBC Documentaries - S1999 E01.avi
Nope. No dice with that format either. Everything else also from TheTVDB using 1x11 format also works fine, so this wouldn't really be a difference.
That's the [Plex Naming Convention](http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/Media_Naming_and_Organization_Guide#Standard_TV_Shows) but I guess it has some leeway. Odd that it didn't pick it, perhaps you need to do a deep scan.
If that doesn't work maybe post a new topic with your scanner.log
Just tried and this works perfect for me
BBC Documentaries\BBC Documentaries - S1999 E01.avi
That's the Plex Naming Convention but I guess it has some leeway. Odd that it didn't pick it, perhaps you need to do a deep scan.
If that doesn't work maybe post a new topic with your scanner.log
Thanks for the help, both.
Strangely enough, the Sxx Exx WITH spaces did pick things up. Why on earth the standard ssxee format does not work, I am not sure. I think this could be a bit of a bug for long seasons.
My solution has been to split documentaries into two sections; "documovies" and "docushows." I also have my documentaries organized in different folders (science, technology, food, nature, culture, politics, comedy, etc) so I can browse different types of documentaries based on each general topic.
