Hello. I am attempting to rip all my old DVDs onto my home media server, which is running Unraid. And, of course, Plex to view them all from anywhere. I have been successful with photos. I figured out how to view pictures on plex via Unraid, no problem (well, few problems). Anyway, I tried to use the same technique for the movie files ripped with WinXDVD. They play just fine on a PC through Windows file explorer, even from the server, but Plex doesn’t seem to recognize them. Again, I’m using the same techniques within Unraid and Plex as I did with photos, works pretty good. Not movies. I’ve tried ripping a movie in 3 different formats, MP4, H264,and MPEG4. No luck. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.
Getting Plex to recognize video files comes down to organization and naming. Then Plex will recognize the files, retreive metadata for them and add them to your libraries. Here’s the Support Articles that talk about naming Movie files and TV Series files (they are treated differently).
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/
Good Luck!
Chris
Sooooo, it sounds like having the movies in a folder called “Movies” isnt good enough. I need to have each movie in its own folder named after that movie, and all those within another folder called movies. Thats a lot of folders. Is MP4 an appropriate format?
If I may augment here?
- Plex will accept AVI, MKV, MP4 video files (most common)
- You will have to name them per Plex standard.
- You’re not required to have a sub-folder titled for each movie UNLESS you want to add your own extras to that movie.
(putting a whole bunch of different extras from different movies in the same folder would be chaos…
)
To show you how I have things named, which does allow me to have extras is
Here you can see the subtitles in the same folder as the movie.
[chuck@lizum uhd.2008]$ ls
1917 (2019)/ Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2001)/
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)/ Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)/
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)/ London Has Fallen (2016)/
47 Ronin (2013)/ Looper (2012)/
6 Underground (2019)/ Lucy (2014)/
[chuck@lizum uhd.2009]$ ls Lucy\ \(2014\)/
Lucy (2014).eng.srt Lucy (2014).mkv
[chuck@lizum uhd.2010]$
By doing this, it makes curating your media easier by keeping it all together for that novie
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As you can see from this screenshot, I add the “movies” folder from the server to the “movies” library in plex, which does recognize that there is an mp4 file within it. It’s there, it can see it. I have the folders and files named and organized in accordance with the “Naming and Organizing your Movies files” support article on the Plex website. But when I ask plex to scan library files, I get nothing.
Be 100% certain to follow the steps.
DO NOT SKIP Apply to this folder, sub-folders, and files
Linux is strict about permissions (DSM 7 is linux based).
Just because your username can see something doesn’t mean PlexMediaServer can
I don’t use a synology. Its just an old computer running unraid. Is it the same? I can’t find any DSM 7 settings.
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