

To clarify all of the old media worked fine then ALL of the new media that was added from 2 days ago onwards refused to work. If I try to play on a console it just says cannot play. I get shaka1001 error when attempting to play in a browser. But it will collect all the information on the show including posters and background art. at the bottom and click "more info" under media it is blank. New files will not collect info about the files but about the shows it will.

Identical parts are actually hard links in this example.īasically with no changes made to anything on the network new media on my Linux (arm) server it stopped allowing anything new to be played. I'd like to avoid re-encoding or otherwise altering the data if possible. Just a note: I'm aware that tools can be used to stitch together parts. Is there some way to disable part rename detection or otherwise work around this problem? Any help is appreciated. The files have the same content, but nothing has been renamed or should be de-duped. The logs are riddled with lines like this, showing each of those opening parts being mistakenly de-duped:
#Plex movie file renaming tool series
In one series I have, only two episodes show up after a scan, and they happen to be the episodes at the end of a run of first parts that change in the middle of the season. My guess is that Plex is hashing the files and when the media scanner encounters a part with the same hash as a part it previously scanned, it decides that the previously scanned file must have been renamed. If any parts in the entire series have the same content, Plex assumes that files must have been renamed and mistakenly de-dupes them. For example, some series distribute openings and endings as parts, some of which may have the exact same content. I was pleased to see that Plex supports this, but it seems to be at odds with part rename detection. I have some episodic content that is broken down into parts (so a single episode is comprised of several files).
