@jeffwolf said:
Thanks for the help, mine is looking really good now. Here’s an issue I am running into, though…Some movie titles are like this…Ace Ventura: Pet Detective…But when naming the movie the same as IMDB.com has it, my computer will not let me put the : mark into the name. What can I do here? Thanks again!
I have never - in my history with Plex - had an issue with a match due to leaving out any special character that is invalid with Windows File Names. Just leave it out.
In fact, FileBot (link in my signature) will pop up a ‘Validate’ option when encountering a non-valid character allowing you to just skip it and continue on. Filebot is The Easy Button for file naming. I highly recommend it.
So I finally have it up and running well, except for one thing…Can anyone tell me why a lot of my movies have gotten the metadata, and are fine. But a lot of them appear to have not gotten it, but when I click on the edit button (the little pencil at the bottom of the missing cover) the cover appears right before the edit window opens. At that point, all I have to do is close the window, and it is fine, for that movie. This is an issue on too many of them for me to click the edit button on all of them. Thank you for any advice you can give me.
I see that occasionally - usually when my machine is very busy with something. I think it has something to do with the way the machine or Plex prioritizes events - when the CPU is pinned.
For instance, I have an AMD FX-8350 in this thing along with an AMD R9-380 Graphics Card, but I would never try to run Doom 2016 while a Handbrake encode is running and Plex is generating preview thumbs for 16 Movies I just added. I have to draw the line somewhere and if not the machine is going to draw it for me.
No, something is wrong with it. I went through and clicked on all of them to bring the thumbnails up, and while they look good now, when you actually click into them or view them on the TV, the metadata is not there on any of them until I force the issue by clicking the refresh button within the 3 dots at the bottom of each thumbnail. I’m going to check my settings, but I am pretty sure they are set to get the metadata automatically…
I’m not sure how PMS comes out of the box, but Visit:
Plexweb/Settings/Server/Library
and see what’s happening with those Preview and Chapter Thumbs.
If you’re generating those that takes off as soon as you load an item and it will absolutely pin your CPU to the canvas for as long as that process is underway… and the only way you’ll know it’s completed is by looking at a CPU temp monitor or you hear the blower slow down.
I just went through and clicked the refresh button for each movie, the metadata downloaded pretty quick, and its all good now. Not really sure why it was not doing it automatically. Am going to add a new movie now to see what happens. Thanks for all your advice, you’ve been really helpful…
Hi, I wrote a tool to save inside local movies folders:
-trailer
-poster
-ico
https://plextolocal.wixsite.com/tutorial
