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Re: Plex Security Incident

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Post by 0points »

gchamonlive wrote: post #81
0points wrote: post #78

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You need to sometimes suffix the folder/file name with {imdb-tt1234} to make it match the correct movie/show. This is the same deal with Plex tho, although I found plex internal metadata engine to auto-match better than jellyfin currently does. You can help here though. Just come to https://www.themoviedb.org/ and help us add metadata.

Changing files isn't really an option for me because my media stays in an off-site server and the mount point is readonly. I'll setup jellyfin and see which titles I'm unable to add and try to collaborate on metadata. It's always important to favor opensource. I can always have both services running side by side.

You can also manually match each movie from the jellyfin frontend, but the issue with going this path is that if you need to rebuild your jellyfin instance for some reason, you would need to redo all of this manual matching.

So, the recommended path is to clean up the media files:

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/

Re: Plex Security Incident

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Post by theshrike79 »

magicalhippo wrote: post #52
BowBun wrote: post #25

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Fair, I handle subtitles in my ingestion pipeline and so those are ready to go by the time Jellyfin gets involved. Skipping, do you mean skipping intros and such? Or something else?

> I handle subtitles in my ingestion pipeline What do you do? Separate file? Not sure if I've noticed a pattern other than "mostly doesn't work well". > Skipping, do you mean skipping intros and such? Sorry, I meant jumping back and forth. On Plex I can just press left/right arrows on the remote, and it jumps a few seconds. On Jellyfin I have to press ok/confirm to actually do the jump. Very annoying.

The *arr stack is what people usually use.

Bazarr specifically in this case, it can search multiple locations for missing subtitles automatically.

Re: Plex Security Incident

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Post by theshrike79 »

gchamonlive wrote: post #51
unethical_ban wrote: post #13

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Soemtimes I have needed to rename files, but to me it is both sensible (how else to recognize a show, maybe a metadata file) and totally worth it. I don't want to need to have a centralized account to access my media library on my device. I don't want to have to pay monthly to enable hardware transcoding.

I can't because most of my media is in an off-site server and the mount point is readonly

Then rename them at the off-site server?

There are very specific and common standard on renaming video files to contain "metadata" so that every single tool doesn't have to use ffmpeg to investigate and try to guess the exact movie/tv show from the title.

The Plex naming guidelines are pretty good: https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-...

Some people like to add resolution and audio track information to the file name too.

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