Hi,
I tried looking at docs such as
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200265256-Naming-Home-Series-Media
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200265246-Personal-Media-Movies
but I’m not sure that there is a solution to my particular use case at the moment, at least not according to the above.
I go to a number of regular events, and purchase a DVD at each one. Each DVD has all of the workshop videos from that event, and I use Handbrake to transfer the DVD into my Plex media library. I even rename each video file, with the initials of the teacher and the name of the workshop, so that I can quickly locate the one I want to watch again. My library looks something like this:
- Events
- 2017-09 Event Name
- 1-01 JS Workshop 1
- 1-02 JS Another Workshop
- 1-03 FN Here is another workshop name
- 2017-09 Event Name
where 1-01 refers to “DVD 1 video 01” (videos are split across two disks from each event, usually), and JS and FN are the initials of the teachers who ran those workshops.
Before I purchased Plex things were ironically easy enough, as I simply used Windows Explorer, or OSX Finder, to browse through the directory structure and find what I needed.
However, now I have Plex, I can’t work out how to do any of these things:
- Group all my ‘Events’ videos together in one library (actually, I think I can do this - I can just create a library from this folder on disk)
- Find the videos from a particular event (e.g. “Event Name” from September this year, in the example above)
- Find a particular workshop video within that event (e.g. “Another Workshop” by JS)
I don’t think my usage scenario above is that unusual, but it’s certainly not the normal ‘TV Shows’ or ‘Films/Movies’ that Plex seems to normally support.
Am I missing an obvious way of doing this? I have created my library as “Other Videos” but perhaps there’s a different way. All I get when I click on it, is a big list of each individual video - but no other structure.
Thanks!
