my library has TVDB at the top of the list… I went to TVDB and named my files accordingly… Yet it’s aligning itself with IMDB which is not on my list of agents at all…
Secondly how to assign split episodes into two episodes… why isn’t plex smart enough to do this? seems like a pretty simple concept especially if you actually put in the name… or doing exactly how it is on the reference databases?.. Many PBS shows have two “episodes” in a season and I don’t want them to be combined into one… I see multiple searches out there for this and NO resolution.
Plex uses episode ordering from TMDB or TVDB. Furthermore, many shows listings at TVDB have an option for Aired order, DVD order, or Absolute order.
If you are using the Plex TV Series scanner and agent, the agent/scanner settings are configured on a per-library and per-show basis. The options in Settings → Agents are not used.
To change the settings for an entire library, edit the library and choose Advanced. You’ll see the options regarding use of local metadata, etc. Note that you must edit the show, not individual episodes.
To change the Aired/DVD/Absolute order for a specific show, Edit the show (pencil icon) and Choose Advanced. You’ll see Episode Ordering and can choose the desired order.
Ok apparently I wasn’t clear at all by the response given…
I have set my agents to prioritize TVDB over themoviedb (TMDB) because TMDB is pretty bad, when it comes to television episodes… They make up their own ordering and not what was air or dvd or anything… just random and their metadata is abysmal… I even unchecked TMDB … and it still forces it that way …
Secondly… No I do not want multiple episodes in one nor do I want to merge episodes … like part1 and part2… what I am saying is… it’s the meta data and naming… when PBS aired they air with two episodes in one 30 minute slot… but when they released into dvd they were put into 1 segment … so you end up with 1 file instead of them being one episode… the vast majority of them are mutually exclusive, and aren’t a sequence by any means… and TVDB actually has s01e01 and s01e01 but plex isn’t smart enough to parse the two… even if you put the entire name that’s listed in TVDB… here’s examples just look at season one… https://thetvdb.com/series/franklin/allseasons/dvd
Thanks for the information. I think I understand what is happening, but have some additional questions first.
What agent & scanner are you using for the TV Show Library?
Edit the library and choose Advanced.
What is chosen for the scanner?
What is chose for the agent?
Example:
Regarding the files for Franklin…
When you rip the DVD with MakeMKV (or similar), you end up with two separate files, one for Franklin Plays the Game and a second for Franklin Wants A Pet (and similarly for the remaining episodes)?
When you play the DVD, how do the episodes appear on the screen? Are Franklin Plays the Game and Franklin Wants A Pet listed as episode 1, as separate episodes, etc?
In a TV show episode, Plex ignores everything after the sXXeYY. Adding the episode name to the file name does not help Plex with matching, etc.
Plex definitely does not support the DVD layout as currently displayed by TVDB. Plex probably sees each episode pair as duplicates, not as individual episodes.
There’s a couple of approaches to fixing this. One is to ask TVDB to modify their DVD layout for the episodes. The other is to adjust your files to match one of the naming schemes on TVDB.
Before doing the former, we need to know how the episodes are shown on the DVD.
With the latter, it will depend on how the episodes are broken up into individual files.
For example, if you have individual files for Franklin Plays the Game and Franklin Wants a Pet, you can use the TVDB Aired (not DVD) order and episodes split across multiple files naming.
/TV Shows
.../Franklin
....../Season 01
........./Franklin - s01e01 - part1.ext <-- Franklin Plays the Game
........./Franklin - s01e01 - part2.ext <-- Franklin Wants a Pet
I’m using plex agent but I’ve set the episode ordering as TVDB … which I thought that this template on how the episodes are defined…
yes there are two separate files. the DVD has all the episodes separated. 11 minute episodes instead of the *30 minutes they aired as. So it’s all individual files.
Yes, but it doesn’t seem to be working… I have selected it to be TVDB (as per picture above)… tried to rescan, unmatch, removed completely and added it back in… it still goes by “The Movie Database” and not TVDB… I’ve even set the agent to be TVDB, thinking maybe that’s the one tied to the metadata… but still… nothing changes it still all looks like it’s from TMDB and not TVDB (I verified that it wasn’t a mix up with the aired and dvd on TVDB…)
