Server Version#: 4.22.3
Player Version#: Multiple (ATV, iOS, Android, etc…)
I have a large library of home movies that were captured in .mov H264, mostly from iPhones.
I’m looking for a straight forward method of organizing them and sharing them on Plex. From what I’ve read, a TV Shows library is best. For this I am using the following naming structure with Local Media Assets - https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265256-naming-home-series-media/
I’m doing some basic testing by applying metadata via the Properties > Details tab in Windows. However, none of that info seems to get picked up by Plex. The files just appear as “Episode #”.
I did the same test on some .m4v files and the data is getting picked up.
Questions:
Is there a straightforward way of getting Plex to read the metadata from .mov files?
If yes, please share =)
if no, is the recommendation to convert these files to a different format?
Is there a better tool for Windows to update the metadata consistently?
From here, ‘fiddling’ is what’s required as I have no details for getting ‘Episode Names’ to appear where needed. I recently had to remove a bunch of tags in an MP4 file, easily, so I can only assume putting them back in would go as smoothly.
You can use ffmpeg to copy the tracks from mov to mp4 files. See Example 9 on this FFMPEG wiki page.
If you’re good with scripting (which I’m not), you could write a short script to process all the files in a given directory.
I’m not sure how much metadata is copied over, so it may be best to convert before adding a lot of info to a movie.
I ran a test on an old video shot with an iPhone 3GS. It copied the video & audio tracks from the .mov file to a .mp4 file. The tracks are copied, not transcoded, so the output file is roughly the same size as the input file.
Steps:
Download ffmpeg from https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/. Version 4.2.2, Win64, static libraries.
Put ffmpeg.exe and test.mov in c:\temp
ran the command from a c:\ prompt.
