DVR not saving shows because of invalid characters in the title from EPG such as ; There should be a setting to rename when moving to Library that covers all special characters and file handing with either replacements or removal so that the file system will stop rejecting the save.
Regards,
Can you tell me a show that has that in the name so I can give the example to devs so they can reproduce. What operating system do you run your server on?
Judge Judy
S24·E79—Walkthrough Fraud?!; Credit Card Share Fail!
I setup for a recording to test this. First episode that recorded was:
Obsessed Stalker?; Six-Car Sideswipe!
Season 19 Episode 187
This is the file I ended up with. This is on Fedora 44, plexmediaserver-1.43.0.10492-121068a07
Judge Judy (1996) - S19E187 - Obsessed Stalker ; Six-Car Sideswipe .ts
@DarQ_Knight which OS are you running the server on?
5.10.60-qnap
Its a linux based NAS, other episodes seem to record fine, and I have a post processing script and going to see if that works.
[1]#!/bin/sh
FILE=“$1”
[ -z “$FILE” ] && exit 0
[ ! -f “$FILE” ] && exit 0
DIR=$(dirname “$FILE”)
BASE=$(basename “$FILE”)
CLEAN=$(echo “$BASE”
| sed ‘s/[;:/\?*|"<>·-----]/-/g’
| tr -d ‘\r’
| sed ‘s/[- ]{2,}/-/g’)
[ “$BASE” = “$CLEAN” ] && exit 0
OLD=“$DIR/$BASE”
NEW=“$DIR/$CLEAN”
[ -e “$NEW” ] && exit 0
mv – “$OLD” “$NEW” 2>/dev/null
exit 0
Footnotes ↩︎
can confirm script worked and files saved after recording – but this should be a built in feature to strip file names of characters that may be invalid on some file systems.
Well, I think it is. Plex cleaned up the test recording file naming for me today.
I wasn’t actually sure it was going to work for you. Doesn’t the file have to already be saved before it can be post-processed?
they are saved provisionally as a .ts file or something like that with an ID number.
