[mythtv-users] mythtv plex integration

[Justin Alcorn]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Second Try) Use mythlinks.pl with an enhancement to put SxxExx in the
>> title, and make a library pointing to that directory.  The
>> mythlinks.pl job was run by the plex user.  I still used #1 to convert
>> everything to H.264 and cut commercials.
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> Out of curiosity, why didn't you let Plex do the transcoding on the fly?
> This is the route I went and had good success with playback; my issue was
> not getting correct filenames when the metadata didn't match up. This
> happened most often on local news broadcasts and my sources insisting that
> the Conan talk show was really Conan the Barbarian. :-) I haven't visited it
> in a while but would love to find a way to make this work.
>

Third and final allows Plex to transcode on the fly.