Documentation Issue: Incorrect Naming Guidelines for 3D Media

[unisoft 352]

13 hours ago, arrbee99 said:

I often wonder why Emby seems to be third choice for most people - there's nothing that stands out.

There is, then they go and take a wrecking ball to the UI like in 3.4.91, thinking it's progress , hacking off exiting long term customers.

Emby need to organise the web site help wikis for new people and make it easier with "Start here >" and then clearly labelled sections for how to name media. The Wiki is not always up to date and conflicting info about 3D, for example. The first paragraph should be explaining client-server relationship and that no free media is given, you have to have already digitised/ingested your media.  Just stuff fore newbie in logical order of what you need, and what you need to do.

[ebr 16169]

3 hours ago, unisoft said:

Emby need to organise the web site help wikis for new people and make it easier with "Start here >"

Have you seen Quick Start?

3 hours ago, unisoft said:

The first paragraph should be explaining client-server relationship and that no free media is given,

Like this?

Can you please provide specific suggestions for where you think this falls short?

Thanks.

[unisoft 352]

17 hours ago, ebr said:

Have you seen Quick Start?

Like this?

Can you please provide specific suggestions for where you think this falls short?

Thanks.

Ok fair enough, that must have been added since I last looked, but I have found INCORRECT information in the WIKI before, especially over 3D naming, and how to handle Extras.

[softworkz 5066]

4 hours ago, unisoft said:

Ok fair enough, that must have been added since I last looked, but I have found INCORRECT information in the WIKI before, especially over 3D naming, and how to handle Extras.

As you are mentioning the Wiki, it must have been 5 years since you've looked at it: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki

Since 2023, we have an all-new documentation site here: https://emby.media/support/articles/Home.html
All articles have been revised and brought into a new and natural contextual order (toc tree).

Documentation is public and everybody is free to contribute: https://github.com/EmbySupport/Emby.Docs
or report issues which will be responded in a timely manner: https://github.com/EmbySupport/Emby.Docs/issues/new

Again, totally off-topic, though...

[ebr 16169]

5 hours ago, unisoft said:

but I have found INCORRECT information in the WIKI before, especially over 3D naming,

Please provide specifics so that we can get these corrected.  Thanks.

[softworkz 5066]

57 minutes ago, ebr said:

Please provide specifics so that we can get these corrected.  Thanks.

@unisoft  It's this article: https://github.com/EmbySupport/Emby.Docs/blob/master/3D-Videos.md - Please review!

Thanks

[scb99 245]

6 hours ago, unisoft said:

Ok fair enough, that must have been added since I last looked, but I have found INCORRECT information in the WIKI before, especially over 3D naming, and how to handle Extras.

I will briefly note here that some of these naming things change from beta to beta - I just go with the flow. I don’t have energy or time for specifics right now sorry.

[unisoft 352]

On 02/09/2025 at 15:20, softworkz said:

@unisoft  It's this article: https://github.com/EmbySupport/Emby.Docs/blob/master/3D-Videos.md - Please review!

Thanks

Hi Softworkz,

So this taken from that page, USED to work:

• moviename (year)-3D.mvc.mkv

then some updates and I found I had to change to (using MKV as an example extension):

• moviename (year) - 3D MVC.mkv
• moviename (year) - 3D SBS.mkv

to work. Whether that has changed again in another update I am not sure, but I found the "3D" icon did not appear inside Emby unless the latter was used. I use the XML metadata as I still prefer that over NFO.

The meta manager approach always worked - but I tend to keep clear of using that unless setting TAGS from vantage Point to use. I rely on the XML metafile being scanned in.

I don't know why I bothered ripping 3D HD anyway, because the LG OLED C6V (the LAST LG 3D TV made), never played in 3D anyway in it's Emby app, despite the video file having the "stereo" layers. I even tried a rename to MP4 in case it had to be MP4 extension. At the time I thought it was an LG internal player bug and would get sorted.

Edited September 4, 2025 by unisoft

[softworkz 5066]

@unisoft Thanks for the description. I've pulled this out into new topic.

 

@Luke  @sa2000 - Do we need to update the docs?

[sa2000 674]

On 04/09/2025 at 12:39, softworkz said:

Do we need to update the docs?

I will have a look and compare 4.8 and 4.9 behaviour

[sa2000 674]

On 04/09/2025 at 12:14, unisoft said:

So this taken from that page, USED to work:

• moviename (year)-3D.mvc.mkv

then some updates and I found I had to change to (using MKV as an example extension):

• moviename (year) - 3D MVC.mkv
• moviename (year) - 3D SBS.mkv

to work. Whether that has changed again in another update I am not sure, but I found the "3D" icon did not appear inside Emby unless the latter was used. I use the XML metadata as I still prefer that over NFO.

I did some tests using dummy files with variations of 3D and 3d and SBS and sbs and all movies were flagged as being 3D. File names used were:

 

Nobody 2 (2025)-3D.MVC.mp4
The Girfrield (2025)-3d.mvc.mp4
The Naked Gun (2025)-3D.mvc.mp4
Weapons (2025)-3d.MVC.mp4

and this is a table view of the library showing the 3D indicator

 

You mentioned a 3D icon - I am not familiar with how that appears and which client apps show it. Could you give me an example / screenshot / photo

 

Edited September 11, 2025 by sa2000

[sa2000 674]

2 hours ago, unisoft said:

The 3D icon is the icon displayed in Emby UI when you look at a title details.

Thanks. I see that for all 4 test movie files I tried

 

2 hours ago, unisoft said:

Remember, I still use the XML metafile method for ingesting of metadata, but I don't think this has an effect on file naming used in the scans.

 

You could let me have one of these for a movie file that was wrong before you made the changes together with the filename and folder path and I will experiment

  

2 hours ago, unisoft said:

1. So yes, it did used to work (Title - 3D.mvc.mp4 as an example), then I found it no longer worked over several Emby releases and in the end I thought it was me not noticing that a change had been discussed on the forum, so I played around I found the ones I listed earlier as working (Title - 3D MVC.mp4 as an example). I then changed all my media and left it at that since

 

 

2 hours ago, unisoft said:

2. I've also noticed recently, that TV Shows, that don't have a SEASON and they are not a Special or Xtra, are being scanned as "Season Unknown" and "Season 1". Historically, Emby just put the programme title without reference to Seasons. So the type of shows would be TV feature length episode, almost like a TV Movie, or a singular TV Documentary. Ideally, it should just show the one programme title with no Season Unknown or Season 1 folders shown in Emby, i.e. just a flat list of titles scanned. The XML has to be renamed from movie.xml to series.xml to read the metadata anyway. Movie.xml is because Media Center Master reads the metadata in to this file (which worked a long, long time ago). Renaming is not an issue however as I know I need to do that.

Here is a rough example:

/multimedia/TV Shows/Documentaries/The Great Jellyfish Of The Seas/The Great Jellyfish Of The Seas.mp4

I don't class it as a "movie" as it is TV content that was broadcast. Again, when last looking at the online help, it didn't cover t

As this has no relation to the title of this forum topic, i will split it into a new forum topic and we can progress it there

 

Edited September 15, 2025 by sa2000