<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Phill Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">philledwards@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Second Try) Use <a href="http://mythlinks.pl" target="_blank">mythlinks.pl</a> with an enhancement to put SxxExx in the<br>
title, and make a library pointing to that directory. The<br>
<a href="http://mythlinks.pl" target="_blank">mythlinks.pl</a> job was run by the plex user. I still used #1 to convert<br>
everything to H.264 and cut commercials.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I've been trying to get this to work but not having any luck because as far as I can make out, Plex just ignores links (whether they're hard or symbolic links) - they refuse to show up in the Plex libraries. This is very frustrating and I've seen other people posting with similar issues when trying to use links.</div><div><br></div><div>But some people here are clearly having some success somehow when using <a href="http://mythlinks.pl" target="_blank">mythlinks.pl</a>. Anyone care to share their secret for getting Plex to show links in the Plex libraries? </div></div></div></div>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have Plex running on a dedicated Windows VM, and my symlink directory is shared using Samba. I had to do some magic in etc/fstab to get it to work but now it "just works" when I point any windows machine or Plex at it. <br><br>I'm guessing that you have a less complicated setup - Have you tried copying a recording and renaming it to something that should work, and seeing if Plex indexes that? At least that would rule out the symlink piece.<br></div></div></div></div>