Mixed media audio and video support

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1

I have a lot of educational and fitness programs which contain both audio and video content and would like a folder type that could handle these types of content.

 

 

2

The way agents and scanners are used by Plex currently, this req. would take so much work, and has IMHO such a small business case, that I fail to see this ever happen.

Besides that, I want the devs to focus on other things, so for me, it's sadly a no  ;)

3

I have a lot of educational and fitness programs which contain both audio and video content and would like a folder type that could handle these types of content.

 
Well.. if you could find a meta data site that had this stuff, im sure there would be someone out there that would write an agent for it..
 
In the Meantime :

Arrange the videos like so :
 
X:\
	Training Videos\					<--- TV Shows Container
		Edu Series\ 					<--- Each "TV Show" is a different Edu/Training Series
			Season01 - Topic\ 			<--- Each "Season" is a Topic Thread
				Edu Series - S01E01 - Video 1.mp4
				Edu Series - S01E02 - Video 2.mp4
				Edu Series - S01E03 - Video 3.mp4
				Edu Series - S01E04 - Video 4.mp4
				<-- Each "Episode" in the "Season" is a different Training/Edu Video --> 
Once your videos are arranged like this, use Ember Media Manager (or any NFO Program) to generate NFO files and local media (When doing the setup, select file types that end in .jpg, worked well for me).
You can then setup a TV Shows Library and use the XBMC NFO agent as the Metadata agent.
 
This method is a little complicated to setup and use and can take a bit of time to get right. I use this myself for a bunch of Technical Training videos I have, works really well :)
4

Thanks for the input, but I'm not even too concerned about grabbing meta data for these types, but just to have it like a Home Video folder where it doesn't care about meta but just scanning and having both the video and audio files for a folder listed by folder name. I figured that might be quite simple?

5

Sorry, can't mix videos and music in the same library. So you could have 2 separate libraries - one for videos and one for music.

6

Sans a custom channel for handling this, would muxing the audio files with a blank or single image video stream be an acceptable work-around?

Using ffmpeg, something like this (sorry, untested) should produce a workable "audio" file, with still image:

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i yourimage.jpg -i youraudio.mp3 -c:v libx264 -c:a aac -strict experimental -b:a 192k -shortest youraudiowithimage.mp4

Or if, you want to create a slide show, see:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20video%20slideshow%20from%20images