Is there an issue with metadata in mkv from tvheadend?

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1

I’m recording tv shows and movies with tvheadend on my raspberry pi.
tvheadend tags the mkvs with some metadata from epg but this information is not shown in plex
:frowning:

Here is the output of mkvinfo

+ EBML head
|+ EBML version: 1
|+ EBML read version: 1
|+ EBML maximum ID length: 4
|+ EBML maximum size length: 8
|+ Doc type: matroska
|+ Doc type version: 2
|+ Doc type read version: 2
+ Segment, size 1864628987
|+ Seek head (subentries will be skipped)
|+ EbmlVoid (size: 413)
|+ Segment information
| + Segment UID: 0x27 0xb2 0x53 0xcb 0xd1 0x56 0xeb 0x5b 0x7a 0x9d 0xed 0xe2 0xfe 0x1e 0xfd 0x5e
| + Title: Lethal Weapon
| + Multiplexing application: Tvheadend Matroska muxer
| + Writing application: Tvheadend 4.1-2541~g41fa62d
| + Timecode scale: 1000000
| + Duration: 4018.960s (01:06:58.960)
|+ Segment tracks
| + A track
|  + Track number: 1 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 0)
|  + Track UID: 1
|  + Track type: video
|  + Lacing flag: 0
|  + Codec ID: V_MPEG2
|  + CodecPrivate, length 94
|  + Default duration: 40.000ms (25.000 frames/fields per second for a video track)
|  + Video track
|   + Pixel width: 720
|   + Pixel height: 576
|   + Display unit: 3 (aspect ratio)
|   + Display width: 16
|   + Display height: 9
| + A track
|  + Track number: 2 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 1)
|  + Track UID: 2
|  + Track type: audio
|  + Lacing flag: 0
|  + Codec ID: A_MPEG/L2
|  + Language: ger
|  + Audio track
|   + Sampling frequency: 48000
|   + Channels: 2
| + A track
|  + Track number: 3 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 2)
|  + Track UID: 3
|  + Track type: audio
|  + Lacing flag: 0
|  + Codec ID: A_AC3
|  + Language: ger
|  + Audio track
|   + Sampling frequency: 48000
|   + Channels: 6
| + A track
|  + Track number: 4 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 3)
|  + Track UID: 4
|  + Track type: subtitles
|  + Lacing flag: 0
|  + Codec ID: S_TEXT/UTF8
|  + Language: ger
|+ Tags
| + Tag
|  + Targets
|   + TargetTypeValue: 50
|  + Simple
|   + Name: DATE_BROADCASTED
|   + String: 2017-06-12 21:15:25
|   + DefaultLanguage: 1
|   + TagLanguage: und
| + Tag
|  + Targets
|   + TargetTypeValue: 50
|  + Simple
|   + Name: ORIGINAL_MEDIA_TYPE
|   + String: TV
|   + DefaultLanguage: 1
|   + TagLanguage: und
| + Tag
|  + Targets
|   + TargetTypeValue: 50
|  + Simple
|   + Name: TVCHANNEL
|   + String: SAT.1
|   + DefaultLanguage: 1
|   + TagLanguage: und
| + Tag
|  + Targets
|   + TargetTypeValue: 50
|  + Simple
|   + Name: SUMMARY
|   + String: Der Arm des Kartells, Action, USA 2017
|   + DefaultLanguage: 1
|   + TagLanguage: ger
| + Tag
|  + Targets
|   + TargetTypeValue: 50
|  + Simple
|   + Name: DESCRIPTION
|   + String: Nachdem Palmer Riggs gesagt hat, dass Miranda von Gideon Lyon im Auftrag des Flores-Kartells get|   + DefaultLanguage: 1
|   + TagLanguage: ger
| + Tag
|  + Targets
|   + TargetTypeValue: 50
|  + Simple
|   + Name: COMMENT
|   + String: Auto recording
|   + DefaultLanguage: 1
|   + TagLanguage: ger
|+ Cluster
2

Plex doesn’t read embedded metadata from MKVs.

3

Why not?
Is there any other way to get the metadata from mkv?

4

I can’t tell you why.
If you could instruct tvheadend to produce Kodi-compatible .nfo files with the metadata.
Then you could use the .nfo importer agents to get them into Plex.

5

Thanks for this info - I’ll check this.
Currently it seems that tvheadend can not create nfo-files out-of-the-box - maybe with a post-processor-command.

Al