ok so…I took a youtube clip, and i ran it through microsoft clipchamp just to trim off the last few seconds (it was the uploaders logo and played with a VERY loud outro song compared to the low volume of the short. Very Jarring.) and i couldnt keep the original format, so i chose the 720P encoding. and the result will not even appear in the scan. even with refreshed metadata.
this is the properties of the file. and i copied the name from the original that DID appear in plex, so i have no idea why it won’t appear unless clip champ is just the worst encoder on the block. But handbrake wont let me trim the length.
so i ran that version through plex and added this new one…
but it still won’t appear after a rescan
update Plex Dance worked on that. But man the idea of doing that everytime i stumble on a bad mpg. I suppose that solves that.
oh i don’t think you guys answered my other question, about the “other videos” and what standards it uses? like would it be better for “less likely to be in the TVDB or MovieDB” documentaries? or would i be better off just naming each and every file with the TVDB number? Is there a recourse to the ones that won’t appear like what i can strip it down to make it appear? its a lot and i anticipate some failures and would like to have a fallback.
For Example i have something from Disney Treasures On the Front Lines, that is not in the TVDB, I have some introductions to some disney shorts (ripped off a dvd so i couldn’t tack it on at the time) but they get clumped into one episode that will not play. and they are in mpeg4 format. for that matter none of the videos will play.
and even the single ones.
BTW you guys are great at helping me face my MYRIAD problems with this program, and i appreciate it 
update so… the looney tunes files that go missing when i replace them with good ones…turns out they were found. and i will remind you they are named as indicated and all within this one folder.
how does this compute?
