For the Red vs. Blue Blu-rays, all episodes for a single season are merged together to form a movie. Therefore, each season is a single file, and I have no desire to cut them up.
When I put the files into the TV Show database, nothing gets indexed, and rightly so.
When I put the files into the Movie database, the Plex Movie agent locates information about Seasons 1 & 2 from somewhere, but seasons 3 and up are not available.
Where is the Plex Movie agent getting this metadata? TVDB and TMDB have the series as individual episodes only, so there has to be additional sources. How can I find the source and populate it to includes all seasons?
I guess the data you get is coming from embedded metadata (assuming youâve stored the file as mp4/m4v/mov). Given youâre trying to add a tv show, your movie library shouldnât find any metadata.
If you want it in a TV library You can just make a show with one episode per season. plex will get the metadata for episode one of each season from TMDB or TVDB but you can edit the summary of each to be whatever you want.
Thanks for the replies. I went with BigWheelâs suggestion but took it one step further by adding multiple episodes in a single file.
Red vs. Blue - S01E01-E19 720p Blu-ray x264.mkv
Red vs. Blue - S02E01-E20 720p Blu-ray x264.mkv
Red vs. Blue - S03E01-E20 720p Blu-ray x264.mkv
and so onâŠ
Clicking on any of the episodes launches the single file from the beginning, but Iâm okay with that since the file has titled chapters.
Some seasons have a âspecialâ episode in the middle of the season that isnât in the Blu-ray file. Therefore, even though the file has 19 episodes, putting E01-E20 makes Plex display all 19 plus the special. It doesnât bother me that the special is a separate file.
Someone elseâs OCD could make this a deal breaker, but Iâm content. Again, thanks for the input and telling me where Plex was scraping the metadata.
