I have made my MythTV recordings available over Plex for easy remote viewing. For the most part this works fine: I use a perl script from MythTV that creates links to the recordings with human-readable filenames that Plex likes (“Programme - S01E02 - SubTitle” — and some other stuff for my use, such as date recorded, etc.).
However, occasionally there are some recordings where the season and episode info. hasn’t come up in the TV guide; in these cases I don’t mind that Plex can’t find out about the individual episode, but I do still want to be able to see it. The MythTV script by default is creating files named “* - SE - *” for these, and Plex has been completely ignoring them. I have changed it to make these pretend to be ”S00E00” instead, but Plex now manifests those as multiple copies of a single episode (some form of stacked-cards icon appears above the thumbnail with the number of alleged duplicates) and I am unable to choose an individual episode to play (I suspect Plex wants to chain them together as if they’re parts of a whole).
MCEBuddy does that when it can’t find a match.
I was able to use an NFO file, but that kinda killed the automatic concept, making it just as easy to rename the item as it was to set up the NFO file.
You could put all those items in an Other Videos Library. It won’t matter what they’re named.
@fnxweb said:
I have made my MythTV recordings available over Plex for easy remote viewing. For the most part this works fine: I use a perl script from MythTV that creates links to the recordings with human-readable filenames that Plex likes (“Programme - S01E02 - SubTitle” — and some other stuff for my use, such as date recorded, etc.).
However, occasionally there are some recordings where the season and episode info. hasn’t come up in the TV guide; in these cases I don’t mind that Plex can’t find out about the individual episode, but I do still want to be able to see it. The MythTV script by default is creating files named “* - SE - *” for these, and Plex has been completely ignoring them. I have changed it to make these pretend to be ”S00E00” instead, but Plex now manifests those as multiple copies of a single episode (some form of stacked-cards icon appears above the thumbnail with the number of alleged duplicates) and I am unable to choose an individual episode to play (I suspect Plex wants to chain them together as if they’re parts of a whole).
Does anyone have any recommendations?
I don’t know how; but down in the Roku section; one of the users; @JuiceWSA , I think (but my memory isn’t the greatest), records live TV and has a script that runs the files through a renamer and then put the files in plex for him. If Juice sees this and it’s not him, he might at least know what or who I’m talking about.
I’m a low-end user, but I read a lot of the threads; so since I don’t use it I didn’t pay a lot of attention, even though it sounded interesting.
Here’s the Encyclopedia Juice-tanica for MCEBuddy:
But… as I mentioned above when it can’t find a match it does exactly what is already happening for @fnxweb .
Show Name - SE.xxx
and in a TV Show Library that file is invisible.
In an Other Videos Library you’ll at least see it, but you won’t get the benefit of matches with episodes that do exist, so…
Hand edit invisible files and allow names and matches with files that exist, or, hand edit all of them.
Seeing as I want to keep them together (in a “TV” section), and I’m already doing a rename to S00E00 in my Plex-injection script I’ll just have to make it more clever and enumerate the untagged ones, with hopefully fictitious numbers, possibly using the recording date such as S2017E1023 (I may just count up the E since to ensure no dups. I’d have to include the time HHMM as well, and I don’t know how far Plex will let me push ep. numbers!).
