Plex/handbrake help

[BiotechBen]

So I have a box set of a show I want to put on my Plex, there are multiple episodes per DVD (4 episodes per disc on average, each of roughly the same length), how do I go about this?

-Do I just transcode the whole disc and Plex will work it out for organizing the episodes?

- is there something I have to do to separate the episodes?

If so: how do I do that?

- am I way off and it's something different?

 

I remember reading that Plex will organize the episodes once there, and it will figure that out, but how do I get to the point where it does that.....

 

 

[Master Disaster]

Plex is pretty decent when it comes to working stuff out but the devs have a few suggestions on how to organize things to help it work the best it can.

 

For Movies you should have one folder/directory called Movies and inside that, each movie should be in its own separate folder which uses the following naming convention

 

Movie Name (Year), so for example Movies > Die Hard (1988).

 

It doesn't matter what the files inside the folder are called, Plex pulls metadata using the folder name only.

 

For TV Shows its a little different.

 

Start with a folder called TV Shows, inside that do the same thing as for movies (for example The Goldbergs (2013) then inside that each season should be split into folders per season.

 

For example, The Goldbergs (2013) > Seaon1 > S01.E01.Episode name

 

In the case of TV Shows file names do matter, Plex uses the episode numbers to pull per episode metadata, if your episodes are labelled wrong they'll play in the wrong order or won't be played at all.

[BiotechBen]

9 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Plex is pretty decent when it comes to working stuff out but the devs have a few suggestions on how to organize things to help it work the best it can.

 

For Movies you should have one folder/directory called Movies and inside that, each movie should be in its own separate folder which uses the following naming convention

 

Movie Name (Year), so for example Movies > Die Hard (1988).

 

It doesn't matter what the files inside the folder are called, Plex pulls metadata using the folder name only.

 

For TV Shows its a little different.

 

Start with a folder called TV Shows, inside that do the same thing as for movies (for example The Goldbergs (2013) then inside that each season should be split into folders per season.

 

For example, The Goldbergs (2013) > Seaon1 > S01.E01.Episode name

 

In the case of TV Shows file names do matter, Plex uses the episode numbers to pull per episode metadata, if your episodes are labelled wrong they'll play in the wrong order or won't be played at all.

Thanks for the clarity on that! I am already set up with the individual folders for tv vs movies. Believe it or not: having just a single folder for movies and then just individual files has resulted in only one error (no name metadata on disc (-1 is the name shown). So when I transcode, with 3 episodes per side of disc, and no easy way of separating them so far as I can tell, how should I go about the naming? As of now, handbrake is naming it based on the disc metadata (disc 1 side A, disc 2 side B etc.) What would you suggest for that circumstance? Is there a way to just transcode certain chapters? I noticed a :39 second gap between chunks which would appear to be the opening or closing credits sequence.