Like many parents that use Plex DVR to record PBS Kids shows I’ve been plagued with mislabeled episodes. The primary issue is that TheTVDB treats each 15 minute segment as an episode while PBS treats a pair of 15 minute segments as a single 30 minute episode. Because of this any episode after episode 1 will be mislabeled. If you’re just watching random episodes its not a big deal but if you’re looking for a specific episode it is nearly impossible to find what you’re looking for.
Other threads that describe the same issue:
I wanted to share my solution to the issue, in the hopes that it can help out other parents out there.
I decided to create a custom scanner as described here:
I just took the normal scanner and tweaked the episode number to be (episode * 2) - 1. So the DVR library will show episode 1, episode 3, episode 5, etc. The benefit being that the episode number, title, description, poster, etc will match the first episode in the double episode. Its still a mystery what the second episode is, but I think its better than nothing and only took a few lines of code to make it happen.
If you want to use the scanner you can get it from here:
I would suggest making a specific DVR PBS library and only use the custom scanner there.
PS - Has there ever been a feature request to fix this? This is a feature I would definitely vote for if there is one.
