Can someone please elaborate or explain what exactly the ‘enhanced’ guide data does, what effect that will have on metadata now that tvdb is not being used ?
I’ve always had it ‘enabled’ just because I assumed it was ‘better’.
Is there any consequences for changing it (affecting any existing or new dvr content) ?
Also, it is mentioned that dvr recordings should be in a separate library, but what about everyone who already has their recordings in a non-dvr library ?
Personally, I originally kept dvr videos in separate library, but at some point I started putting them in the main library.
So my plex has both dvr content in mixed libraries.
What are the consequences of that? (both past existing content, and for new content)
Ugh. This sounds like instead of fixing bogus guide data they are throwing the towel in and just saying “accept it”.
Considering content doesn’t like living in two libraries this just lowered the value of the dvr dramatically. Once you’ve recorded something into a special library, then fixed the metadata and moved it to the proper spot then what is to prevent the dvr from just recording it again. Or are we expected to just never touch dvr recordings now, even when their metadata is fubar?
I guess when I have time I’ll finally be investigating schedulesdirect w/xmltv. This “accept a trainwreck” mentality is nonsensical.
sounds exatly like the supplier cannot fix the issues with the epg, so we now just have a accept poor data in our libraries from recordings
fix the file name to correct s/e, all metadata will be lost, unless you fix match on the show, which will put it as it was before this change, dvr metadata would be lost
The “Enhanced Guide” option searches for additional metadata and currently picking more detailed description text and images as well as release year where available. It does slow down the guide refresh considerably and for EPG data, there have been a few cases of valid EPG metadata getting replaced with metadata from a mismatched show.
The “Enhanced Guide” functionality is now limited to guides using xmltv data and it can be enabled if the XMLTV data is limited.
The checks Plex Media Server makes on whether the episode is already in the library or not may result in an incorrect decision made as to whether to record or not, if there is a discrepancy in episode numbering / original airing date between what is in the EPG data and what numbering / dates are set for existing episodes in the library. Keeping the episodes/shows recordings in a DVR library would avoid such issues as the numbering should be consistent with the rest for the TV Show.
There have been many reported cases of recordings not happening because of sequencing discrepancies. Having recordings in a separate DVR library and with the EPG data retained, it should be rare for this to arise.
So does this mean these errors are now going to be ignore
The cause of this is the new provider having wrong S/E information, will this wrong information remain
eg, usually when a new series starts we will get something like S01E06, which should have been S02E01
I hope we are not going to accept these despcrepencies and that the issues gets fixed
The issues you are trying to workaround are caused by the provider supplying poor data, why not get to the cause of the problems instead of adding a workaround to try and hide it
But losing a recording is still going to happen if the source data is wrong, unless duplicates are now going to be recorded
If there is an episode that gets wrong recorded as S01 E09, when it gets corrected for the following week which should be S01 E09 this episode is still going to be missed as it looks like a duplicate
I cant see any positive of this change other than to mask poor epg data, which only started happening when you changed provider
How does Trakt syncing now work, i am sure this relies on tvdb/tmdb id’s
How is watched status going to work between libraries now dvr’d items use a different agent
