Enigma2 recordings - scanner support

I actually have two Dreamboxes, which save their recordings to an SMB-share on my NAS. This way, both boxes can access recordings, regardless on which one they were recorded.

I have PMS installed on my NAS and pointed it to the directories behind the shares where the dreamboxes save their recordings.

In order for Plex to “understand” the multi-file recording format used by the dreambox (based on Enigma2), something called a “scanner” is needed. The ones that come with Plex out of the box understand normal container files, but are quite useless when it comes to properly parsing the dreambox metadata.

To fix this, some people have written their own parsers in Python, which help Plex retrieve the information from the dreambox files and thus populate its media library in a meaninful way.

An example of a such “scanners” can be found in this thread: Scanner for enigma2 .ts files

I think it would be a great addition to have Plex support Enigma2 files out of the box, since most of these homebrew scanner scripts are kinda buggy.