Hi all,
I am a self professed metadata junky. It bothers me when it’s wrong, and I spend a lot of effort to make sure that the data I have in Plex is correct.
Before Plex removed the ability to record a show into an MKV format, the metadata was preserved regardless of the show being post-processed - the filename was identical between what the DVR engine recorded and what MCEBuddy spit back out. Now that the DVR only records in .TS, as soon as the show is processed into MKV, all that rich metadata that Plex provides is lost.
Does anyone have a solution or do we just need to hope that Plex will bring back the option to record shows in MKV?
Thanks! Will.
I don’t have the same experience as you, i.e. I haven’t noticed a loss of metadata from the EPG when using mcebuddy in a postprocessing script. If I use mcebuddy to pick up and move files then I lose it, but not when it is used in DVR postprocessing. Currently using 1.7.6.4058 generating .ts files.
seems to have broken in 1.8 - I’ve tried it both with the post processing script, as well as having MCEBuddy watch the folder - in both cases, the resulting MKV doesn’t have any of the metadata that the TS file did.
Something certainly did break with 1.8. I know they got rid of the Remux option and now it’s supposedly doing it by default when you select “Off” for transcode while recording. But I am still generating .ts files instead of remuxing to .mkv. Running 1.8.0.4109
I tried the transcode approach - every recording fails immediately. I had hoped that this might work given that the machine it’s running on is pretty beefy. Apparently it’s a little more experimental than I initially thought…
