@CycleJ - No worries! Glad we were able to get it all figured out.
Thank you for your reply. Especially on Thanksgiving day.
The time that I am seeing the advantage with having the metadata included is with shows that are not in the TVDB.org website.
You are right you do not need the metadata for Plex to name the show properly. But you do need the metadata in these situations.
I ripped Jerry Springer with Tablo Ripper and your program. Plex named the show just fine, but the air date and the description were not included in the plex listing.
I ripped the show with Surlatablo and all fields were filled in properly.
We had the same results with:
Rachael Raye (Wifes show. She needs the descriptions)
The Ellen Show
The Peoples Court
Jerry Springer
Dog Town, USA
Just to name a few. Basically day time shows.
More mainstream shows like NCIS Los Angeles are no problem. Since they have a current listing in TVDB.org they get all of the info with no problem.
I hope I made myself more clear this time. I’m not complaining at all. I just wanted you to know that day time shows need some editing when you add them to plex. Adding those 2 fields.
Besides that I wouldn’t change a thing. The program runs great.
Phil
Cool, that’s what I was looking for - a reason. Can you figure out the specific metadata tags that are helpful? If so, they’re easy enough to add.
I’m still using MCEBuddy before Plex, and I found a couple tags it supports. None of which were helpful.
PS - Never thought you’re complaining. You’re contributing! Thanks for that.
PS - start here?
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Metadata
I wish I knew which tags were the culprit. All I know is what MediaInfo showed me. I’ll cut and paste the General section of the report so you can see the tags in use.
Your programs tags:
General
Complete name : I:\TV Shows\TV Shows\Dog Town - s01e13 - Parker and Barney.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 2.29 GiB
Duration : 35mn 16s
Overall bit rate : 9 297 Kbps
Writing application : Lavf57.2.100
Surlatablo’s Tags:
General
Complete name : Y:\Tablo Convert\TV\Dog Town, USA\Season 1\Dog Town, USA - s01e13 - Parker and Barney.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 2.32 GiB
Duration : 35mn 16s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 9 423 Kbps
This is the point basically were things change from your tags to Surlatablo’s tags:
Collection : Dog Town, USA
Album : Dog Town, USA
Track name : Parker and Barney
Genre : Reality;Animals
Description : A dachshund has dental problems; a shih tzu has painful paws.
Recorded date : 2015-11-07
Writing application : Lavf56.18.101
Comment : A dachshund has dental problems; a shih tzu has painful paws.
LongDescription : A dachshund has dental problems; a shih tzu has painful paws.
Part_ID : s01e13
TVNetworkName : KCWT-HD
End Of Tags…
As you can see the second report has quite a few added tags. I’m not sure which ones that Plex is picking up on, but it seems to work for day time shows.
I hope this helps.
Phil.
P.S. The full reports are a few posts up…
The episode name is also wrong most of the time.
Here is an example:
The People’s Court
The People’s Court - Double-Crossing an Expert Witness
The first line is the shows name & the second line should be the episode name.
For example:
The People’s Court
Double-Crossing an Expert Witness
I’m not sure but maybe that is controlled by the Album & Track Name Tags?
I know that Tablo Exporter used the description tag & my Plex did not pick up the description. Maybe the LongDescription Tag is also needed.
Heck I don’t know… I’m clutching at straws here… lol
Phil
P.S. I hope you don’t catch the software on fire… lmao
OK… I’ll download the new version and give it a try…
Was the description tag supposed to be the actual description or was it the episode name?
Mine has the episode name…
General
Complete name : I:\TV Shows\TV Shows\The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2015) - s13e56 - Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 3.34 GiB
Duration : 1h 5mn
Overall bit rate : 7 319 Kbps
Description : Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways
Writing application : Lavf57.2.100
The description did show up in plex But the episode name got messed up:
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Elizabeth Banks, Ellie Goulding
The episode name should have been:
Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways
The full description was: (Might need the LongDescription Tag for this)
Elizabeth Banks (“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2”); Ellie Goulding performs; 7-year-old Kai Langer; guest DJ Stephen “tWitch” Boss.
That did work. Where the description is in Plex was the episode name…
P.S. Gotta grab a shower before heading to the parents house for turkey… Be back in a few…
It did the same as what I posted above. I need to figure out how to post a image on this forum. Then I can take a image capture of the Plex screen so you can see what I am talking about.
Wife is hollering at me that we have to go. I’ll talk to you later… Thanks for the help.
Here is the new tag that MediaInfo is showing:
General
Complete name : Y:\Tablo Convert\TV\The Ellen DeGeneres Show\Season 13\The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2015) - s13e56 - Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 3.34 GiB
Duration : 1h 5mn
Overall bit rate : 7 319 Kbps
Writing application : Lavf57.2.100
LongDescription : Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways
I tried to rip a different Tv show. I’m gonna try & post a screen capture of what Plex is showing me of the imported video. This is using v1.4.2 of your software.
This is what the screen should have looked like. I edited the Tags in Plex.
I hope this helps to explain what I have been trying to talk about.
Phil
P.S. I hope your turkey was good… Ours was… lol
P.S.S. Here are the tags in the new file:
General
Complete name : Y:\Tablo Convert\TV\Rachael Ray\Season 10\Rachael Ray (2015) - s10e51 - Ciao, and Welcome to Our Italian Thanksg.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 4.39 GiB
Duration : 1h 5mn
Overall bit rate : 9 621 Kbps
Writing application : Lavf57.2.100
LongDescription : Ciao, and Welcome to Our Italian Thanksgiving! We’re Serving Up Italian-Style Thanksgiving Favorites All Hour Long!
Next version (1.4) of SurLaTablo will add the tags for:
- Season Number
- Episode Number
- Media Type (enums for TV(10) or Movie(9))
- HD Video boolean
(if that’s interesting) Existing SurLaTablo versions jam sXXeYY in for episode_id, so #1, #2, are just gravy. But in case some piece of software cares…
It is a gui… it just uses a terminal style 
CycleJ,
You’ve done a tremendous job on the Tablo Ripper. I commend you for your efforts! Just downloaded 1.4.2 and it appears to show the first line of the episode description rather than the title. (Same as mavsfan815’s post) Can a presume you’re aware of this already? I’m OK with this, as I strip the episode name out anyway. My plex likes s04e04 just fine.
Happy Thanksgiving and now Black Friday to all our American cousins.
Regards,
CCR
Thanks for the kind words. And yes I’m just starting to play with adding metadata. I don’t use it myself since I pipe everything thru MCEBuddy. But it’ll get there for the rest of you - soon!
It appears everything went wonky when tablo upgraded to 2.2.8. I ran my upgrade two days ago, but first recording last night (Elementary - s04e04 - When a fertility lab technician is murde.mp4) with TR 1.4.2 Hope this helps…
CCR
Sure am… fire away… where is it? Still on your dropbox?
no change… still picking up description, not title.