Posted on 04/28/2022 9:41:44 PM PDT by chuckles
I have a plex server set up in my home and movies work fine. I have several seasons of TV programs that set up fine. Married with Children set itself up in numbered seasons and episodes in perfect order. I also have several seasons of Last Man Standing all setup in seasons and episodes. I have home Bible studies I have filmed such as Genesis, and Exodus, and Song of Songs. I have tried several times to get them to list as the seaons and episodes but it continually looks like a shotgun listing. If I look at Genesis, it will be chapter 20, then chapter 7, then chapter 40, then whatever all over the place. I have listed them with numbers starting the chapter numbers, the same thing happens.
What is the secret to get chapter #1, then chapter #2, then chapter #3, to list correctly so I won't have to search for the next lesson?
I'm figuring that it has something to do with how the file is named.
This should help:
https://www.plexopedia.com/plex-media-server/general/plex-tv-show-naming-conventions/
Not sure if I’m understanding, but I think my husband has had to rename things to make them sequential. Just copying them doesn’t seem to do it for some things.
Don't use quotation marks, though.
The same goes for a list of books, or songs.
Computers want to arrange things alphabetically, so that numbering those things with 01 *.*, 02 *.*, 03 *.*, will put your list in the order you want, regardless of the titles.
Let me know if this works for you, please.
just watch Married with Children, forget about the toxic Bible stuff
I’ve done the 01, 02, 03, renaming. Didn’t work.
If you think the Bible is toxic, you haven’t read it.
Grab all the first seasons of Lucifer, Miranda
Maybe little Britain and `the devil’s whore`
https://www.plexopedia.com/plex-media-server/general/plex-tv-show-naming-conventions/
#7 Delilah in the bible was like Peggy in Married with Children....
Should work. The formatting is important.
I use PLEX thru my ROKU 4 box that has a sd card. I noticed that when I play any movie or tv show there is a delay as it shows a percentage loading and has to get to 100% then shows the show.
Any way to speed things up?
All my movies/tv shows are on my SSD hard drive and the network cable goes from the router to the ROKU box then using a HDMI cable to the tv set. Distance is under 10ft total cable length from router to roku to tv.
My guess, (for what it’s worth), is a SD card is usually much slower than an SSD drive and will load slower in the ROKU. I would try using a PC with an SSD drive to store my movies and cu the ROKU out. I’ve used a Rasberry Pi to serve movies and it worked OK. A ROKU is a pretty minimal device.
(Genesis - so1eo1.mp4 - Genesis 1 part 1.mp4) doesn’t work either. I changed the name on 4 files and they still scattered everywhere.
in addition to correct naming, plex also looks at the metadata for the file.. if your metadata is screwed up, plex will not list it correctly without manual intervention
i use “TV Show Name - S01E01 - Title.mkv” for TV shows. if its not working, open the file in the VLC player and go to the ‘tools’ menu, then ‘media information’ and make sure the video title here matches the file name
Thanks, I’ll check on this tomorrow as it’s 3:30 Am and I’m passing out.
Set up your options so that it references TVDB for your TV shows, then name each program & episode in the same exact format as the listing there. It also helps sometimes to include the first year of the show. Your file structure should look like:
TV Show
-MASH 1972
—SEASON 1
-—S01E01.The Pilot
That is so strange.
Are you a member?
I’d suggest posing the question there.
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