I’m currently adding BluRay copies of Red Dwarf to my library and the specials are giving me grief. I’ve switched to MKV for BluRay content since MP4 doesn’t seem to handle the PGS subtitles.
Most of the specials are not listed in TVDB so I went with higher numbers as suggested in the naming guide. I’ve made the episode number SSEE so there are enough digits available. I’m not certain that it’s the MKV tags it’s not reading or an episode number limit but up to episode 1003 (which is MP4) it displays the name from either the tag or the filename - both are the same.
“Red Dwarf - S00E1003 - S10 Smeg Ups.mp4”
The next episode is 1101 which is the first MKV. It just shows the title as “Episode 1101” rather than “Behind the Scenes” which is in the MKV title tag and also on the end of the filename “Red Dwarf - S00E1101 - Behind the Scenes.mkv”
For the main seasons it seems to be correctly picking up the details and showing
“Red Dwarf - S11E01 - Twentica.mkv” as “Twentica” for Episode 1. I’m not sure if it’s just because it’s picking them up in TVDB though.
That would certainly hinder it. Any idea why it doesn’t pick up the title from the filename instead?
I prefer to keep the manual edits to a minimum where possible - it means that if I ever have to rebuild my library, it doesn’t need me to hold its hand the whole way through it. There are one or two items where it fails to pick up the match with the Plex Movie agent but works if you point it at The Movie DB but at least most of it is automation-friendly.
The problem with embedded titles and metadata in MP4 files is Local Media Assets.
In order for Plex to read embedded titles and such - only in MP4/M4V files - LMA has to be in the top slot. When you put LMA in priority - every single MP4 file with a bogus title field takes priority, blowing matches and generally causing a lot of pain and suffering.
Most of us edit what we need to in Plex, Leave LMA at the bottom of the active agents where it can do no harm, and hope our Plexiverse doesn’t explode.
If our Plexiverse explodes - we have our data on another local drive so that when the OS drive explodes, we fix that and load our Plex data from the local drive… problem solved.
I’m a 4 time loser on a blowed Plexiverse. The last 3 times was with the database outside the OS. I much prefer that method. I hardly noticed.
Thanks Juice. I’m getting a bit more of an idea how things like agents are working (or not!) now.
So this library is TV and the agent for the library is set as “TheTVDB”. Under Agents > Programmes > The TVDB I have LMA top followed by TheTVDB and Plex Theme Music. So if I have this right:
LMA can’t understand the tags (because it’s an MKV) and is not trying to pick up the title from the filename. Next up is TheTVDB which has no match so the file just gets listed with the episode number. Does that about sum it up?
My library/database hasn’t exploded so far but I did kill it and totally rebuild because of problems with live tv (to a Shield) and console reporting errors with items that didn’t exist. Live TV seems to be a whole can of worms at the moment - pause it at your peril. To be fair, this could well be a Shield issue or the Android app that’s running on the shield.
I generally don’t but there’s the odd time we do and between the odd pauses, the longer pauses with “Weak Signal” complaints - I know it’s not weak signal as the stream then carries on without any missing content - and pausing resulting in Plex dropping the tuner. Well, that’s clearly the subject for a topic when I’m not supposed to be doing other things!
Thanks for your help.
I’m old school (and quite old) so the antenna comes in, splits, one way goes to the TV and the other to the HDHR Tuner. If I wanna watch Live Advertising - I turn on the TV (then usually turn it off - in horror).
I realize nobody does it that way any more. It’s ‘old fashioned’.
