The purpose of this thread is very simple; To consolidate information for the dev team showing them different use cases & incidents in order to give them additional information by which to move forward and ultimately improve matching (which can be a lot of guesswork as it is). We are to collect s…

Here is the procedure: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201100678-Repair-a-Corrupt-Database

One thing I noticed is that when I put the file in the folder, Plex is not adding it automatically, just looking for the file to force the scan

I have created a parallel thread to this thread. The purpose of the new thread is to address specific technical issues / needs to work problems discovered/encountered while we continue primary research & data collection here. It is here. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/255585/tv-series-name-m…

Hi there, there’s an issue I posted about a year ago with no results, and if you’re still looking for data (I’m aware of how old this thread is) then here it is :). The episode numbers of multi-part episodes in the “DVD Order” entries of some shows in TheTVDB have numbers after their decimal points…

@svensayshi Using the different formats: SxE and SxxExx, please write up and show how those would work. If there are restrictions on which delimiters are allowed, please state so… I will submit it to Engineering as a RFE

The simple solution would be for Plex to recognize a decimal followed by a single digit as a legitimate part of episode numbers. So (as in the Seinfeld example) that if someone enters “S03E15.1” or “3x15.1” it will simply attempt to match that number with TheTVDB (decimal included) as per the link: …

@svensayshi How should Plex parse NCIS.S01E01.Pilot.mkv and how should it parse NCIS.S01E01.1.Probie.mkv ? Do you see the conflict? The parser is an automaton. It has no intuition and cannot ‘reason out’ the name as human’s do.

In that scenario I’d suggest that if it finds a period, check the next single character for a 0-9 digit and if found then include it in the episode name (possibly for DVD orders only, unless that’s too complex or not an option). While this might lead to dropped matches if the episode name begins wit…

What needs to happen is a sequence of regular expressions (regex) which lead to a definitive result. working out the state change rules is the trick. "At what point does state 1 no longer apply and state 2 engage. If you’re familiar with FSM’s same princicple.

Yeah I understand what you mean. Maybe a symbol before the episode number to flag the state change. For example S03E’15.1’ with apostrophes before and after the episode number. So if ever the parser comes across SXXE followed by an apostrophe, it can capture the full text until the next apostrophe a…

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