Server Version#: 1.22 hello plex guys, i am having trouble detecting one of my movies correctly: “The captains close up”. I added {tmdb-} and on another try {imdb-} number but still plex wasnt able to detect it correctly. My guess: tmdb and imdb stores this as a mini series. But my version is a o…

TV Show Library/ ....The Captains Close Up/ .......Season 01 ........The Captains Close Up - S01E01-E05.mkv TV Show, of course, but without further ado Plex will grab all the individual descriptions and list them to Appear as 5 episodes - but there will only be one when the Play button is pressed a…

This is to be placed as a TV Series. I created 5 dummy episodes for the scanner to grab (no special naming) [chuck@lizum ~.251]$ ls -la /vie/qa/tv/The\ Captains\ Close\ Up/ total 52 drwxr-xr-x. 3 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 14 12:01 ./ drwxr-xr-x. 948 chuck chuck 45056 Mar 14 12:01 ../ drwxr-xr-x. …

Hi ChuckPa, first: live long and prosper :wink: Great documentary, bit to much Shatner, but great. I am not sure if i understand what you’re saying. Of course i could create five dummy files. But it wouldnt solve my issue. I’d like to watch my movie with plex. With dummy files … well … i could w…

I created 5 dummy files to verify the scanner is working correctly. I went to IMDB and got the correct name. The Captains Close Up (TV Mini-Series 2013) - IMDb Seeing that it’s a “TV mini-series” (emphasis on “series”), I created it in Plex as if it were a normal multi-season show. This …

I went ahead and grabbed those episodes. [chuck@lizum ~.249]$ cd /vie/tv/*Captains* [chuck@lizum The Captains Close Up.250]$ pwd /vie/tv/The Captains Close Up [chuck@lizum The Captains Close Up.251]$ ls -la Season\ 01/ total 13553464 drwxr-xr-x. 2 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 14 12:47 ./ drwxr-xr-x. …

Hello Chuck, sorry i didnt make myself clear. I did get it: actually its a tv series. BUT, i only have one file which includes all episodes as one file. This is the way the bluray was delivered. So, what i do not understand: i have one “movie” file. How would it solve my issue creating dummy files…

Thank you for clarifying. That makes a whole lot of difference. There is a How-To to break out that single file into its individual episodes. [image] [HowTo]: splitting multi-episode files with MKVtoolnix GUI Tips, Tricks & How-Tos The purpose of this HowTo is to split …

Thank you ChuckPa. I’ll look into it.

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ChuckPa March 14, 2021, 5:12pm 7

Thank you for clarifying.

That makes a whole lot of difference.

There is a How-To to break out that single file into its individual episodes.

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