Aikouka
Lifer
- Nov 27, 2001
- 30,383
- 912
- 126
You serve video to phone, tablet, computer, chromcast.
Www.plex.tv
Anime is a bit of a mixed bag with Plex. First of all, it takes a bit more effort to setup an anime library than it does normal TV or movies. Plex uses scanners to read the files and determine what they are, and then uses an agent to find out all the information (episode title, etc.). Well, as you'd expect, the default scanners don't work well with anime as they're based off American TV. That means you have to split large series (e.g. Naruto or One Piece) into seasons defined by the English airings. To fix this, I use the Absolute Series Scanner scanner and the HamaTV agent. The ASS scanner allows you to have large single seasons (all Plex content has to be segmented into seasons, but you can hide them in the settings) where normal scanners will see "Title 123" as "Title Season 1 Episode 23", ASS will see it as "Title Episode 123". I have had a few weird issues with shows like Eyeshield 21, which has a number at the end. That required me to insert the SxxExx format into the filenames.
The one thing that I never figured out was how to get ASS to read and add movies within a series. In other words, you could take all the One Piece movies and insert them alongside the episodes rather than be separate entries.
EDIT:
An issue that I'm having right now is with dual-audio, dual-sub files. In Plex, you can setup the default subtitle language, but if there's more than one of that language, it just chooses the first one regardless of whether the other one is marked as default. I might just remove the OP/ED-only subtitle to keep things easy, but that requires a remux where adjusting track settings can be done quickly.
Last edited:
