I set the year for my home videos and sure enough, the dates always change back on me.
Sometimes even as far back as the 70’s Is this a bug? I spent hours correcting the date only to have wasted my time.
I have a lot of home video and am always adding more. Yes i have the date fields locked, but that is no help.
If it matters my folder structure is
Home Videos / 2017
Still looking for help on this.
You don’t, by any chance, own a DeLorean do you?
But on a slightly more serious note: I am not particularly familiar with Plex’s handling of home videos but it sounds like s similar problem that happens in movies where embedded metadata overrides some manual settings.
Is it possible that whatever you used to record the videos has inserted some improper data into the video file? The fix, if that is the case, in movies is often to move the agents around.
I do not think that is practical with home videos so maybe try editing the video files with a metadata editor.
Of course that may not have anything to do with your issue but it is a place to start.
@Elijah_Baley said:
You don’t, by any chance, own a DeLorean do you?But on a slightly more serious note: I am not particularly familiar with Plex’s handling of home videos but it sounds like s similar problem that happens in movies where embedded metadata overrides some manual settings.
Is it possible that whatever you used to record the videos has inserted some improper data into the video file? The fix, if that is the case, in movies is often to move the agents around.
I do not think that is practical with home videos so maybe try editing the video files with a metadata editor.
Of course that may not have anything to do with your issue but it is a place to start.
I have thought of that myself. I have tried my files with and without metadata and it makes no difference. Even files I have the embedded metadata year clearly label 2015 will change to a year that makes no sense. What I can’t figure out is my folder structure is very clear to the server. All videos is in a folder representing its year. I’m totally at a loss with this.
Anymore help on this?
PLEASE!!! This is driving me crazy.
Home Video is a huge part of my collection and very important to me. But it is getting so flustering with it not keeping the proper dates i may need to look elsewhere for my server needs if this cannot be corrected. I love plex and is why i have a plex pass. But i have tried everything to fix this. I need help from someone from the dev team?.. or something?
Here is proof of my issues,
All dates are correct with the files and the server.
But as you can see here none of that matters… showing 2016.
Locking it after correcting it also makes no difference.
I can spend an hour correcting dates and soon after its all back to being wrong.
Note: even video without any metadata it still does the same thing.
Some dates are so far off it’s ridiculous. Video footage from 2014 displaying as 1970.
Can we please stomp this issue once and for all?
The library where you put those videos in, should use ‘Personal Media’ as its primary agent.
The verify this, edit the library, go to the ‘Advanced’ tab.
Inspect the Plex XML info of this video.
Does it say guid="local://nnnnn"
or does it say
guid="com.plexapp.agents.none://bcc__________________________71b?lang=xn"
(If it says guid="com.plexapp.agents.imdb://... or guid="com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb://... then you have it completely wrong. You definitely don’t want that. Fix it as explained below.)
If it’s guid="local://nnnnn", you must explicitly tell Plex that this is a Home video and not an ‘unmatched’ movie.
You do this by performing ‘Match…’ (on the preplay page of this video,
on the upper bar under the ellipsis [ . . . ] )
then ‘Auto Match’ > ‘Personal Media’
@OttoKerner said:
The library where you put those videos in, should use ‘Personal Media’ as its primary agent.
The verify this, edit the library, go to the ‘Advanced’ tab.Inspect the Plex XML info of this video.
Does it sayguid="local://nnnnn"
or does it say
guid="com.plexapp.agents.none://bcc__________________________71b?lang=xn"(If it says
guid="com.plexapp.agents.imdb://...orguid="com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb://...then you have it completely wrong. You definitely don’t want that. Fix it as explained below.)If it’s
guid="local://nnnnn", you must explicitly tell Plex that this is a Home video and not an ‘unmatched’ movie.
You do this by performing ‘Match…’ (on the preplay page of this video,
on the upper bar under the ellipsis [ . . . ] )
then ‘Auto Match’ > ‘Personal Media’
Thanks OttoKerner,
Everything looks to be correct to me. Have a look.
<MediaContainer size="1" allowSync="1" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="4" librarySectionTitle="Home Videos" librarySectionUUID="0db45506-71c5-49b5-95cb-ed8e3beca935" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1488398524"><Video ratingKey="1631" key="/library/metadata/1631" guid="com.plexapp.agents.none://7a4ad76f997ca5525cfbe45bf8c25f8ff83954f2?lang=xn" librarySectionID="4" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/4" type="movie" title="Abby" summary="Looking after Abby for dad." viewCount="1" lastViewedAt="1488754447" year="2016" thumb="/library/metadata/1631/thumb/1489263921" art="/library/metadata/1631/art/1489263921" duration="155819" originallyAvailableAt="2015-01-01" addedAt="1471982510" updatedAt="1489263921" createdAtAccuracy="epoch,local" createdAtTZOffset="0"><Media videoResolution="1080" id="2484" duration="155819" bitrate="17823" width="1920" height="1080" aspectRatio="1.78" audioChannels="2" audioCodec="aac" videoCodec="h264" container="mp4" videoFrameRate="NTSC" optimizedForStreaming="0" audioProfile="lc" has64bitOffsets="0" videoProfile="constrained baseline"><Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="2505" key="/library/parts/2505/1489263878/file.mp4" duration="155819" file="E:\Home Videos\2015\Abby 2015\Abby.mp4" size="347137554" audioProfile="lc" container="mp4" has64bitOffsets="0" hasThumbnail="1" indexes="sd" optimizedForStreaming="0" videoProfile="constrained baseline"><Stream id="5323" streamType="1" default="1" codec="h264" index="0" bitrate="17630" language="English" languageCode="eng" bitDepth="8" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" frameRate="30.000" hasScalingMatrix="0" height="1080" level="40" profile="constrained baseline" refFrames="2" streamIdentifier="1" width="1920"/><Stream id="5324" streamType="2" selected="1" default="1" codec="aac" index="1" channels="2" bitrate="192" audioChannelLayout="stereo" profile="lc" samplingRate="48000" streamIdentifier="2"/></Part></Media><Genre id="1638" filter="genre=1638" tag="Home Video"/><Director id="1636" filter="director=1636" tag="Allan Cameron"/><Role id="1637" filter="actor=1637" tag="Allan Cameron" role=""/><Field locked="1" name="originallyAvailableAt"/><Field locked="1" name="year"/><Extras size="0">
</Extras></Video></MediaContainer>
@“Allan Cameron” said:
Everything looks to be correct to me. Have a look.
Yes, there are no mistakes made on your side.
This is a clear PMS issue then.
After some research, I found out this is already a known issue and will be fixed in a future PMS version.
@OttoKerner said:
@“Allan Cameron” said:
Everything looks to be correct to me. Have a look.Yes, there are no mistakes made on your side.
This is a clear PMS issue then.
After some research, I found out this is already a known issue and will be fixed in a future PMS version.
Thanks so much for taking the time to help me OttoKerner.
I hope the ETA on the fix is not to far away. Plex is known for concentrating mainly on the media content more so then the other types like personal media. I will give dev’s some more time, but honestly its been this way for a very long time already so i don’t expect a fix anytime soon. Sadly i may have to move on to other server software. I produce 100’s of personal videos a year. Having correctly working personal media libraries is a must.
Thanks again for the help.
@OttoKerner said:
@“Allan Cameron” said:
Everything looks to be correct to me. Have a look.Yes, there are no mistakes made on your side.
This is a clear PMS issue then.
After some research, I found out this is already a known issue and will be fixed in a future PMS version.
Can you tell me if this date issue is only present in the windows PMS?
What about OS X and Linux?
Thanks
@“Allan Cameron” said:
Can you tell me if this date issue is only present in the windows PMS?
What about OS X and Linux?
As far as I know it is not OS-specific.
Still not fixed i see. Can someone give me a timeline on when this issue will be addressed?
I’m having similar problems and am extremely frustrated. I had thought possibly it was due to the “date created” attribute attached to my file being later then the actual date the file was made ( due to files being copied to different locations). I downloaded a bulk attribute changer and changed the date created to be the appropriate year and re-imported the library into Plex hoping that would fix it. Lo and behold now it changed the date to TODAY ( 12/19/18 ) so it must be looking at some other attribute to get the date but who the heck knows what that is.
I have thousands of home video clips and I’m not going to manually edit metadata for each one to work around this bug. It would take weeks…
Still looking for a work-able solution. For whatever reason, PMS loses it’s mind when working with personal media.
@Audio_Guy I have pretty much given up on finding a working solution for this. I haven’t tried in a while to fix it. Hoping it’s on someones radar and will eventually be addressed.
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