I’ve not found any documentation stating what photo formats are supported for the Plex photo library. For instance, JPG and MP4 appear to be supported, but what about earlier formats like 3GP (video from 3G mobiles)? If not supported, do these have to be converted - ideally losslessly? Is there a de…

MOV - This video format worked well with Plex Photos. It can be rotated directly in TEncoder without conversion first.

Another Sticky MP4 (see above). That’s the second occurrence in about 8,400 processed images (photos+videos). Because it happens so infrequently, it’s difficult to establish a pattern. [screenshot.43a] This pair of MP4s really wanted to stick to the next day on the timeline. Bizarrely, in order to…

1 Jan 1900 Another pattern is emerging. If I add a month’s worth of JPGs into the Plex library and refresh, there’s a good chance that I will find one (sometimes two) days worth of photos under the date 1 Jan 1900. This issue has been reported elsewhere on the forum. What’s interesting about this i…

For those interested… The directory structure I chose for the Plex library is hierarchical with year at the top, then months under the year and finally days under each month (specifically /yyyy/yyyy-mm/yyyy-mm-dd/). This structure facilitated troubleshooting. It made it easy to home in on days that…

Sidebar: While it may not seem entirely necessary, a good reason to convert MPG and AVI video to MP4 is that ExifTool is unable to alter metadata on the former.

MTS - The file extension for AVCHD video. MTS does not play well with Plex. MTS video appears on top on the timeline suggesting that Plex isn’t correctly reading MTS metadata time. While playable, a thumnail isn’t present. MTS files tend to be really large as well. ExifTool isn’t able to alter metad…

I’m beginning to suspect that the 1 Jan 1900 bug is symptomatic of some other underlying issue. This is what makes me think so: I dumped a month’s worth of JPGs into the Plex Photo library and did a refresh. The 1 Jan 1900 bug appeared within the timeline. This issue, when it arises, doesn’t necess…

PMS Version#: 1.18.3.2129 Well, 13,000+ images (photos + videos) on, I’m at the end of my Plex Photo library journey. I’m sure there will be users with a six-digit number of images. I’m just not a passionate and enthusiastic photo taker. In fact those 13,000+ images were taken over a period of arou…

Hi, I’m at the start of this Plex journey for Photos etc. 460GB / 98K Files - currently across nested folders - 776 Folders. I reviewed Plex documentation and online: https://www.howtogeek.com/313321/how-to-store-and-view-your-photo-collection-in-plex-media-server/ I’ve decided to rename/restru…

Plex Photos - A Personal Journey (Tricks, Traps & Troubleshooting)

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Sir, your work is awe inspiring. Please get a job with Plex.

What is the Plex file naming convention for photos?

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