I think I stumbled onto a quirk (could be a feature or a bug). I have mulitple tuners with the same show in my DVR setup. I was recording Grey’s Anatomy at the end of the November and somehow the same episode was recorded twice: one from 2 different tuners. The first copy received the expected episode info:
Grey’s Anatomy (2005) - S16E08 - My Shot.ts
The second tuner recorded the same episode but incremented the episode # (and with it, the episode title):
Grey’s Anatomy (2005) - S16E09 - Let’s All Go to the Bar.ts
Remember, that file is NOT actually episode 9. I think this occurred because I had temporarily set the show to recored new and repeat episodes.
Anyway, the next week, episode 10 airs and plex gets confused. Episode 10 is not yet in the TVDB (as of November), so it gives the file the following name:
Grey’s Anatomy (2005) - S16E10 - TBD.ts
I guess since the double-episode issue, this is kind of making sense, and easy enough to fix.
But here is the strange part. We have not yet watched episode 8 nor 9 nor the mis-named episode 10. Grey’s starts again tomorrow night where the real episode 10 will air. However, Plex was not listing Grey’s in Thursday’s DVR schedule.
After some experimentation, I found the solution: First, I deleted the duplicate the episode 8 and properly named episode 9. Then I re-scanned the files in my TV folder. Once that was done, Grey’s appeared in the DVR schedule as expected.
I thought that the New/repeat info that Plex used was coming from the TV Guide info. But my data shows that there is some cross-talk between the TV Guide and the file system.
It seems to me that the Guide Info should be the decider of new/repeat.
Have I found a weird feature/bug, or were my expectations misguided?
