Has anyone found a way to make this work?

[systematyk]

Workout videos as tv show pulling PMS as agent. For MKV files it appears Plex will not use file names for episodes, is there a way to force it to or a tagging scheme that will work from the file side? As I have a bunch of those, I was mainly looking for a way to automate the process instead of going into each episode of each “show” and manually changing the titles of episodes. I already went through and changed everything to a “TV Show” structure on the actual files. Plex does “arrange” properly, but is giving me “episode 1” or using a “created on” date instead of the actual titles.

I have been looking for awhile now and have not found anything so any ideas or direction anyone could provide would be fantastic.

[NewPlaza]

@systematyk

For MKV files it appears Plex will not use file names for episodes, is there a way to force it to or a tagging scheme that will work from the file side?

M4V/MP4 files support embedded metadata. You could add the title there.
Take a look at this post.

Adding a tv show that is partially on The TVDB

Okay. If thetvdb displays only the first 108 episodes (or 108 scattered/out of order) then you can add them to thetvdb yourself or you can add them in plex at a much higher episode number. My example is the tv show “cops” [cops] [cops2] [cops3] I started the episode count at 100 because I could not verify what episode correctly goes in what order so I didn’t what plex to match plot summary/synopsis incorrectly. I could started at episode 50 cause no season has 50 episodes(most is season 5 …

Look at the last 2 picture I posted.

[systematyk]

Is that actually showing episode titles in Plex though? I have the show structure right, just want Plex to pull episode titles instead of episode 1, 2, 3.

[NewPlaza]

@systematyk

Is that actually showing episode titles in Plex though?

Yes. The first picture is from plex. Plex added the title I embedded automatically. I made no edits in plex.
See. Look at episode 111. It displays the title I embedded into the MP4 file(second picture)

You cannot get rid of the “Episode xxx” underneath it though.

[systematyk]

With my MKV files it does not seem look at the title info, even with the file Title in place and a Plex dance.

[NewPlaza]

@systematyk

With my MKV files it does not seem look at the title info,

That’s correct. Only M4V/MP4 files support embedded metadata.

[systematyk]

Lol, literally what my post was regarding, mkv files specifically.

[NewPlaza]

@systematyk

Lol, literally what my post was regarding, mkv files specifically

I was trying to provide other options.
But yes, I was only confirming your comment. There is no way around it. If you have MKV files, you cannot use embedded metadata.