MCEBuddy and Auto Organize

[heerssimpson 3]

I am trying to run my recorded tv through MCEbuddy to strip the commercials then place it back in the recorded file. My current setup is I am running the recorded shows through mcebuddy, saving them in a separate folder, auto organize is watching that folder and organizes the shows. It works fine on some shows, but on others auto-organize cannot find the show, like local news. What is the trick when it comes to auto organize and local news? Is there a better way to accomplish the comskip?

[Luke 42083]

the main thing is the series name in the recording file name needs to match the series name in your emby server library.

[heerssimpson 3]

When I go to auto-organize-->organize file, I select the news series, select a season and episode # (because I have to), click OK but nothing happens. 

[Luke 42083]

Sorry to hear about that. please provide the emby server log. you can learn how to do that here:

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/739-how-to-report-a-problem/

 

Thanks !

[heerssimpson 3]

log and screenshot of auto organized attached. Thanks for the help.

log.txt

[Luke 42083]

I looked at some of the ones you have in red there. Surrogates is not listed on tvdb and Madagascar does not have an episode that aired on the date in the file name:

 

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=230371&seasonid=418381&lid=7

 

Currently auto-organize will not organize unless it finds internet metadata, so that's why none of these are organizing. I suppose we could think about changing that rule @@softworkz.

[heerssimpson 3]

Hmm. Attached is a screenshot of the recording of Surrogates. It has the channel and time right there. I think it is the movie Madagascar, not sure though.

 

So it sounds like there is no way for auto-organize to handle local news, correct? I select the "news at 6" series when I try to set up the "organize file" and click save but nothing happens.

 

I suppose I will go back to just having mcebuddy save the new file in the recorded folder, but emby won't be able to fill in the metadata. 

[heerssimpson 3]

Quick follow up question: Can you think of a way of using Emby to record live tv, MCEbuddy to strip commercials, and preserving Emby's rules for those recordings, like only save the last two recordings?

[Luke 42083]

You could try the recording post processing feature that we have to launch mcebuddy.

[softworkz 5073]

I looked at some of the ones you have in red there. Surrogates is not listed on tvdb and Madagascar does not have an episode that aired on the date in the file name:

 

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=230371&seasonid=418381&lid=7

 

Currently auto-organize will not organize unless it finds internet metadata, so that's why none of these are organizing. I suppose we could think about changing that rule @@softworkz.

 

I don't think that it is reasonable to change that requirement  - for several reasons:

• Requiring metadata for auto-organize is acting as a quality filter. When there's no metadata during auto-organize, then it's very unlikely that there will be at a later time (metadata providers use to have episode data in advance to premiere in 99% of call cases). No metadata is actually an indication that something is wrong and such a file shouldn't be organized

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• Auto-organize includes renaming to a certain pattern that usually includes data retrieved from metadata providers

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• While we got a feature to auto-organize episodes by premiere(!) date, this is rather meant to organize downloaded content containing the correct date.

  It is dangerous to use this for recorded tv because there are lots of reasons why the recorded date can be different from the premiere date

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• Given the case, that you're trying to run all recorded tv through auto-organize, it becomes even more important to process only those cases that are valid with a high probability. Otherwise it could really create chaos in your library

 

​I would try to go with the recording post processing feature as Luke suggested.

[heerssimpson 3]

You could try the recording post processing feature that we have to launch mcebuddy.

Can you point me in the right direction to learn more? Thanks for your help.

[Luke 42083]

@@heerssimpson, what you will do is just go into live tv settings -> then scroll down and find the post processing option. you can use this to launch a program to perform the post processing.

 

This is assuming you're using Emby Live TV and not a plugin. So for example, you let Emby save the recording with a nice and friendly file name, then use the post processor to launch mcebuddy, and configure mcebuddy to preserve the original file name as is. Does this help?

[heerssimpson 3]

@@heerssimpson, what you will do is just go into live tv settings -> then scroll down and find the post processing option. you can use this to launch a program to perform the post processing.

 

This is assuming you're using Emby Live TV and not a plugin. So for example, you let Emby save the recording with a nice and friendly file name, then use the post processor to launch mcebuddy, and configure mcebuddy to preserve the original file name as is. Does this help?

 

What is the difference between doing it your way, verses just letting mcebuddy auto monitor and do its thing without changing the name?

[Luke 42083]

That should be fine too.