I have movies ripped from Blu-Ray. For each I ripped and decrypted the whole disc (full backup) using makemkv, so I have extras also, although not currently doing anything with those. I was going to make an MKV file for each main title, but then found out that Plex can play the m2ts that the blu-ray movies use and almost all of the titles used only 1 segment, so that the entire movie is in one m2ts file. So to save space I did things a little differently than other libraries. In Plex, I added a “Movies” library named “Bond” for all the James Bond movies. . then “add folder” and “search for media folders” and browsed to folder I created within each of the full backups that contains the m2ts that has main movie. The structure of Blu-Ray disc has all the m2ts files in a folder called stream. To avoid plex creating a movie for each of the m2ts files, I created a new folder within stream folder and moved the main movie into this folder. This allows me to simply move it back to get back to original file structure which can then be used in makemkv to make additional mkv of all titles if I want. I directed plex to look in this nested folder.
So this worked fine. Except for 1 movie. Can’t figure out why. So to test, I created another library called test, and browsed to the same folder and the movie was added to the test library no problem. But it won’t add in the Bond library? So I tried to add another movie in the bond library and it added it fine. So not some kind of limit on the number of folders in a library. so why won’t plex add this movie in the bond library?
My immediate suspicion is that Plex is adding one of the movies as a “duplicate” of another movie. Some Bond movies have similar/identical names as other movies, so if you do not follow proper naming conventions (including release year), Plex may mis-identify one of the movies as another. (For reference, the Naming and Organizing your Movie files article)
However, even with the proper year, Plex still seems to mis-identify a file every now and then. In particular, Casino Royale, despite having the years, the new one might be incorrectly scanned by Plex as a duplicate of the original older movie. So to check, put the bond movie into the folder with the rest, and do a scan. Then, check for duplicates.
To do so:
- Enter the movie library’s “Library” view.
- In the upper left, change the sort method from “All” to “Duplicates”.
- See if one Plex thinks you have a duplicate.
- If you do, click the triple dot
...menu and pick “Split Apart”. - Find the separated files, then click
...and do “Get Info” to identify which file is which. - For the one marked as the wrong year, click
...and pick “Fix Match…” to pick the correct version.
If it’s not a duplicate… well, I dunno. Do a plex dance on the movie to really clear it out of the library, add it in, do a scan, then check your server logs to see if the logs explain why it won’t get picked up.
Don’t use the m2ts container. Rip them to mkv.
Then follow the naming guides to get them properly recognized – including the extras. https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/
Never point a library directly to an individual movie. A library should always look at the “parent” folder which contains all movies.
That’s it! And it was Casino Royale involved. It was putting Quantum of Solace (2008) as a duplicate of Casino Royale (2006). I split them apart and then matched Quantum of Solace correctly and all is well. Thank you.
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