I have a few movies that are miscategorized by Plex for their resolution. Is there a way to override the resolution that Plex assigns a movie? I.E. SD/480/576p/720p/1080p?
You cannot really fix this yourself unless you shutdown Plex and start to manually tinker into the database (not recommended). How off/wrong is the detection?
You might try to have Plex “Analyze” the video (that has at least helped me after fixing some mis-configured audio / subtitle tracks).
Are these videos in a non-standard resolution (ie: you cropped the videos so they are no longer true 1080/720 etc)?
Yes, all the videos that I’ve noticed this behavior on have a non-standard resolution, but it is obvious to a human what the true resolution is.
Obvious to human and obvious to a computer program are two different things entirely. There are quite a few discussions about this particular issue, if you are so inclined to search around a bit I believe you’ll enjoy the rather lively conversations.
Personally, since all of this is based on broadcast specs, if a video is not 1920x1080 (perhaps it was cropped to 1920x800), then it is not 1080 because it does not meet the specifications for that resolution. The spec doesn’t say it’s either 1920 or 1080, but rather both that make the movie 1080.
There’s a lot of complexity when it comes to making Plex figure out what is what, and none of it is easy. 
The resolution numbers which are displayed are of no consequence for playback or transcoding decisions. This is a purely cosmetic issue.
@kegobeer-plex - Yes, I understand that computers and humans are two different things, that’s why I brought it up. My question into if I can “fix” it is because as a human, I know what I want the resolution to be categorized as. I will try to do some more searching to see what else has been mentioned on this topic.
@OttoKerner - I know they don’t affect the playback. This is for my personal record keeping. I’m trying to de-clutter my collection and I’m sorting on <1080p resolutions. The majority of my “problem media” is being categorized at 720p, but it’s really just a cropped or odd source video that should be 1080p.
This is the reason for why I’m asking how to fix it, because every time that I do this process, I see these files and go through the entire process again, only to remember, this is 1080 media and I don’t want to delete it. I know this is OCD, but this is what you get when you release awesome software that allows people to centralize all of their media in one place and then you have a handful of things that don’t quite fit like they’re supposed to. Since Plex can’t automagically fix it, how about a way for me to? (Preferably in a supported way and not hacking around a database that’ll get overwritten every time the file gets reanalyzed)
Oh yes, Plexies…
please make it happen that you allow the end user more flexibility:
a) have two or three modes of operation (and a menu in the settings of the server to choose from)
- strict (your usual braodcast-specs-based)
- non-standard (be moregenerous with regards of cropped areas)
To give you an idea on how to have a very simple method of calcuilating this:
Have a table not with the standards of widths and heights, but with movie aspect ratios and number of pixels for those movie formats.
Using that, you will get a more “human” view on which format is what. You could even analyze snapshot pictures for black areas if you want to.
b) Make this field editable.
Yes, it is purely cosmetic. But you are providing filters for that which I am using a lot. So it would be perfect to have a way of getting false positives out of my way when I discover that the 720p is a cropped 1080p (not fully complying to broadcast specs).
Thank you for considering this.
