I am pretty recently started to use Plex on my Synology NAS. It works OK so far, but I have question regarding the ordening. The setup is somewhat to complex for my wife and kids For example; I have some Paw Patrol nicely ordered in the TV Series folder, I have some Paw Patrol as Movie files and I have converted some DVDās to seperate episodes (because DVD format is not supported), so basically some loose files. Unfortunately I cannot always tell the right episode.
What is the best setup then? Because you have to browse 3 seperate directories in order to see all Paw Patrol filesā¦
The problem is that the TV-series requires very strict name checking. The movie folder does show the seperate files, but basically it creates allot of folders because every movie file is then a seperate item in the list. This is not nice when listing that content.
And then this is just Paw Patrol; there are more of this kind of contentā¦ What could be a good idea then? I donāt know how to order them because I donāt know what the episodes are, basically in this situation I like the setup of TV-series, but it is so strict. It should be nice if I could generalise it or some sort. Then showing the structure of the files with one plain background. If the folder is catogised as āDifferent moviesā then every file is seperate, where I donāt like that structure also.
Plex works great for me so far for my other movies and TV series, also with my home made movies and photoāsā¦
The best, but also most elaborate, way is to identify the episodes from your ripped DVDs and determine the season and episode numbers which they had in the original TV show.
Look them up on TheTVDB, then rename the files accordingly and move them into the folder structure of the Paw Patrol in your tv shows library. https://thetvdb.com/series/paw-patrol
As for the āmoviesā: these appear usually in the āSpecialsā season of the tv show, so you can integrate then there. Same method as above. Look it up on TheTVDB, rename the file, move the file.
The only difference is that the season number of specials is ā00ā.
Thanks for youāre reply. But I am still struggling with the Specials then. When I convert my DVD to MKV, I get several title files it is in that stage not one file anymore
I named them S00E05 with something behind it, but in the TV series I only get one file ā¦ In the Movies section, they are all seperate again and not structured by folders? How does this work then?
It is simple to explain. I have a Paw Patrol DVD. This Paw Patrol DVD are basically loose episodes on that DVD. On the DVD menu there is an episode selection menu or an option to play all episodes. Now, when I use MakeMKV to create MKV files, that one DVD will create more MKV files logically nicely seperated in the episodes. So then naming will be difficult, because all these seperate MKV files make it S00E05 for example which is this DVD. I donāt know how to label this then.
So basically, in order to get plex back on track in this situation, is to extract them first from the DVD and then to merge all episode files back into one file? Correct? I donāt mind that they are seperate files, but plex ofcourse needs to get this basically?
Is there coming something to plex in the future to get this easier? Or to support ISO and DVD format files? Because it is allot of work for one DVD and unfortunately I have allot moreā¦
It all depends on how the producer of the DVD has decided to make life difficult for rippers. And of course how the tv show is listed on TheTVDB.
If they only list double or triple episodes, you need a file which has 2 or 3 episodes in it.
If they however list single episodes, your files should ideally cover one episode. Not more, not less.
It still find it difficult. Paw Patrol is the easy one. Paw patrol is aired in our native language, but luckily every episode has an english intro screen in it which tells me what episode it exactly was. But unfortunately other kids series donāt do thatā¦ for example, fireman sam or Bob the builder. The titles here are also in the native language, I donāt know the exact english episode name then. What method do you then use in order to get a nice index on unknown episodes?
That is the unfortunate thing with the translations, most of the times it is not one on one translatedā¦ Sometimes it is a completely differtent title where you can hardly translate it back to english. Also one matching word can be already difficult and when a serie got allot of episodes it is more difficult then Basically I cannot find it
I donāt get it really, I am still a new with Plexā¦ I have Miffy episodes here as a test. I donāt see the episodes on thetvdb.com. It are now 19 episode files in MKV format. I have renamed them to Miffy 1 to 19.mkv now. The titles are in dutch, on thetvd.com episodes are also in dutchā¦ but I donāt see these specific episodes in the seasons (maybe some exists, I havenāt checked them all yet). Now it scans them as Season 1. But then as a result I see the wrong episode names and metadata assigned to that file.
What I would like is that I could rename the file according to the title which is shown in the Intro. Then to have general art of Miffy assigned to the episode, not something that is related then to that episode on thetvdb.com because that doesnāt match. It would be nice if Plex supports unsorted or some sort in the series section?
I donāt know exactly what my use case is with Plex Dance, the indexing mechanism works okā¦
For example; I have some Paw Patrol nicely ordered in the TV Series folder, I have some Paw Patrol as Movie files and I have converted some DVDās to seperate episodes (because DVD format is not supported), so basically some loose files. Unfortunately I cannot always tell the right episode.
