[mythtv-users] mythtv plex integration

[Justin Alcorn]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
>
> But some people here are clearly having some success somehow when using
> mythlinks.pl. Anyone care to share their secret for getting Plex to show
> links in the Plex libraries?
>
>
Make sure that you're running mythlink.pl as the plex user, and that the
original files are readable to that user.  Plex will ignore anything not
owned by plex, but it's only the links that have to be owned, the files
just need to be world readable.
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