Is it possible to have one media scanner for everything and have it try to identify a file as a movie and show movie metadata, if it's a tv show, show the TV show episode data, or if it's unrecognizable, just show the filename as the title?
I am talking about a single folder with files like this:
Star Wars - The Emperor Strikes Back 1983.mkv
Star Trek TOS S02E14 - Miri.mp4
Ted's TV Show Or Whatever.avi
And have the shows show up under the same category with the appropriate metadata for the movie, TV show, and Ted's TV Show which it can't match to anything just showing as Ted's TV show.
To me, it seems like this is how the program should behave by default - not requiring the user to do anything other than stick files in a folder and start watching the stuff on the TV.
And how would you propose the scanner identify the difference between all of these pieces of media? To me, this is the least logical way to organize and catalog media. It's like getting a filing cabinet and instead of putting folders in it, just dumping all your paperwork in the cabinet. Doesn't really make much sense.
Least logical = easiest :) But let's say I do put TV shows in one folder and Movies in another folder. I still need to find a way for it to show the file name if it can't match an episode or movie with the scanner. Right now, my choices are
1) Have no metadata and all files show up
2) Have metadata for the files that are matched, but not all files match so I can't watch a TV show or movie that doesn't get a match with the scanner.
I want option 3 which is
3) If there is a match, show all of the data - otherwise just show the file name.
This is not possible unless you use DLNA the Plex clients don't expose a "file view'
DLNA will show a By Folder view of Plex that you will see the file view exposed.
You could add all your source folders to a Home Movies library and not have it scrape/indexed. and I think this may get you closer otherwise, get XBMC
But otherwise No like dane22 says. And not really worth dev time relative to all the other stuff out there.
Least logical = easiest :) But let's say I do put TV shows in one folder and Movies in another folder. I still need to find a way for it to show the file name if it can't match an episode or movie with the scanner. Right now, my choices are
1) Have no metadata and all files show up
2) Have metadata for the files that are matched, but not all files match so I can't watch a TV show or movie that doesn't get a match with the scanner.
I want option 3 which is
3) If there is a match, show all of the data - otherwise just show the file name.
Least logical = easiest :) But let's say I do put TV shows in one folder and Movies in another folder. I still need to find a way for it to show the file name if it can't match an episode or movie with the scanner. Right now, my choices are
1) Have no metadata and all files show up
2) Have metadata for the files that are matched, but not all files match so I can't watch a TV show or movie that doesn't get a match with the scanner.
I want option 3 which is
3) If there is a match, show all of the data - otherwise just show the file name.
Least logical = easiest for YOU. Coding this is much harder than just organizing your media. I'd recommend if you want this as a feature to write your own media scraper plugin for Plex. Problem solved.
And how would you propose the scanner identify the difference between all of these pieces of media? To me, this is the least logical way to organize and catalog media. It's like getting a filing cabinet and instead of putting folders in it, just dumping all your paperwork in the cabinet. Doesn't really make much sense.
And to add a tad to my short answer before :D
Doing what you want would make the rate of mismatches a lot higher, and also scraping new medias to take a lot longer, as well as have an impact on Plex Caching servers, as well as on TheTVDB and IMDB and TheMovieDB, since you'll have to try them all for all medias.
When above is said....
This is a developer forum, where developers can ask questions to each others, and not a forum for neither generic questions, nor enhancement requests.
How about simply approaching it from the other direction. Show all files with the title as the file name and then if a match is found, fill in the metadata and replace the title with the data retrieved?
How about simply approaching it from the other direction. Show all files with the title as the file name and then if a match is found, fill in the metadata and replace the title with the data retrieved?
I repeat:
When above is said....
This is a developer forum, where developers can ask questions to each others, and not a forum for neither generic questions, nor enhancement requests.
