I cannot get PMM to read from my TV assets directory properly | Kometa | Page 1

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:02 PM

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I've created a library with one TV show in it to keep things simple. I must be doing something dumb, but I can't see what. I'll post the log and a file structure, and hopefully someone can explain why I get things like Asset Warning: Unable to find asset folder: 'Season 01'.

wide streamBOT Feb 12, 2023, 8:02 PM

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pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:02 PM

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📎 meta.log

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I've tried several variations on the season01.jpg poster name as well as putting it in the Season 01 directory to no avail.

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My assets directory is mapped to the top-level of my TV shows share.

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Come to think of it, it's not even seeing poster.jpg properly either.

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:25 PM

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@pearl wave what's the filepath for one of the videos in Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:25 PM

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twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:26 PM

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Oh so you're doing in-line posters?

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oh asset_directory: config/assets_tvshows ?

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:27 PM

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The hell you say. Hang on...

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Oh good. Yes, that's accurate.

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:27 PM

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I'm confused

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In Plex, what is the full filepath for S01E01 of that show

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can you screenshot it from Plex

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:27 PM

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Of course.

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And in my docker-compose.yml:

      - /mnt/data/appdata/pmm:/config
      - /mnt/data/media/tvshows:/config/assets_tvshows
      - /mnt/data/media/movies:/config/assets_movies```

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:29 PM

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ah I see 🙂

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:29 PM

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Figured that might help. 🙂

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No, how I do things apparently isn't compatible with PMM. So I'm trying to see if it's worth the effort to change things around. But I have to get it working on one show before I decide if I wanna revamp everything.

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:31 PM

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FWIW you don't put the Season posters inside the season folders

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same with episodes

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:31 PM

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Yeah, see...sometimes you throw a bunch of shit at the wall to see what sticks...

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:31 PM

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config
├── assets
│ ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars
│ ├── poster.png
│ ├── background.png
│ ├── Season00.png
│ ├── Season01.png
│ ├── Season02.png
│ ├── Season03.png
│ ├── Season04.png
│ ├── Season05.png
│ ├── Season06.png
│ ├── Season07.png
│ ├── S07E01.png
│ ├── S07E02.png
│ ├── S07E03.png
│ ├── S07E04.png
│ ├── S07E05.png

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:32 PM

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And the episodes thumbs don't go in the Season directories? Ugh. That seems inconvenient as hell.

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:32 PM

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Most people don't mount their media folders into the asset folders

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PMM isn't designed to use in-line asets

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because PMM doesn't "touch" the filesystem outside of its own folder

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:33 PM

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Right, I get that. But since Plex is designed to use in-line assets...I mean, I'm not entirely crazy for trying to what I'm doing here, right?

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:34 PM

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If you're using in-line assets, why not set Plex to prefer local assets?

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:35 PM

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Oh, I do. I just have several tools in play to organize all my stuff and I was trying to have one be authoritative and everything else would look to that to see what the "actual" poster/whatever was.

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:35 PM

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I see 🙂

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:35 PM

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And the tool I was using may have been the wrong choice, thus leading to all the issues.

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I use tinyMediaManager to grab all the info, cross-link all the IDs, look up artwork, etc.

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But it's somewhat inflexible with naming stuff. It's their way or the highway.

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 8:38 PM

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Gotcha

pearl wave Feb 12, 2023, 8:46 PM

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So if I'm using Plex's "Use local assets" like I normally do, then this should be the right format, right?

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I'm getting that from here: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220717-local-media-assets-tv-shows/

Plex Support

Local Media Assets - TV Shows | Plex Support

The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from...

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If so, it's not picking up the poster.jpg. And I could have sworn it used to. I know you're not Plex support, but...thoughts? 🙂

twilit mica Feb 12, 2023, 11:18 PM

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I'm not sure sorry

rough meteor Feb 13, 2023, 1:51 PM

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maybe because it picked up a different poster it didnt keep looking if there were others? try remove all the other images and see if plex sees it then

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:12 PM

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@pearl wave uparrow

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:13 PM

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Well, the image it chose wasn't on the filesystem anywhere if that helps.

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:15 PM

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Is there a reason you have mass_poster_update: plex ?

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:17 PM

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I wanted to update all of my posters, and have it fall back to plex if local assets weren't present.

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:17 PM

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I see

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If you do a run without that enabled, does it work?

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:18 PM

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What do you mean by "work"? Find the intended image, or...?

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:18 PM

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yes

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:18 PM

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(also, I don't know - I'm in the middle of a run as we speak and they take 2.5 - 4 hours from start to finish)

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:19 PM

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Gotcha

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:45 PM

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Is there a way to find out what caused an overlay to be re-applied? Obviously I have reapply_overlays: false but sometimes it seems to reapply stuff that I wouldn't have thought needed it. Like, is there a way to crank up the logging level so it says something like, "Rating1Fresh changed" or something? It's really just something of a morbid curiosity at this point.

rough meteor Feb 13, 2023, 2:45 PM

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pearl wave Is there a way to find out what caused an overlay to be re-applied? Obviously I...

were looking into an issue specifically with the Ratings Overlays thats forcing a reapply everytime

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:46 PM

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Ah, ok. That's probably not helping my roughly 4 hour runtime, so - very cool. 🙂

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:47 PM

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pearl wave Ah, ok. That's probably not helping my roughly 4 hour runtime, so - very cool. ...

How big is your library?

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There are probably ways you can strip it down to certain things if you needed

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:48 PM

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Defined by what - size? Number of items?

rough meteor Feb 13, 2023, 2:48 PM

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number of items

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:50 PM

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i.e. you can add -ov to your Run Command to only run overlays

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:51 PM

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274 TV shows, 13520 TV episodes, 665 movies.

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:51 PM

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yeah overlays shouldn't take 4 hours unless you're doing episode-level overlays?

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:51 PM

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Once this run finishes, I'll parse down some of the TV shows.

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And yes, I am.

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:51 PM

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Ah right

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:52 PM

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I have a new toy, so I'm playing with all the things it can do, y'know? 🙂

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:52 PM

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yeah 😄

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:54 PM

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twilit mica i.e. you can add `-ov` to your Run Command to only run overlays

What's the equivalent in Docker-speak? I could look it up, but I have to at least PRETEND to do some actual work, lest the boss get on my case...

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:54 PM

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docker run .... -r -ov

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:55 PM

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twilit mica There are probably ways you can strip it down to certain things if you needed

Sorry I should have said "docker-compose" speak. I can check the install docs though.

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:55 PM

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PMM_OVERLAYS=true

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:55 PM

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And I'm certainly eager to hear all the ways this is possible to speed things up. I understand that some of what I want is not implemented and isn't nearly as simple as it sounds on the face of it.

twilit mica Feb 13, 2023, 2:55 PM

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and if you only wanted to test on one library:
PMM_LIBRARIES=Movies and PMM_OVERLAYS=true

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 2:58 PM

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Would definitely be simpler than commenting out entire swaths of my config.yml file.

fathom stratus Feb 13, 2023, 3:03 PM

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First thing to do would be to create some small test libraries so you can iterate tests in a few minutes rather than hours. When you get things dialed in, use the big library.

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 3:05 PM

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Oh, I have been. I learned that one early on. 🙂

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I don't know enough about python (I do lots of PHP at work, but very little python) - is there a way to multithread something like this process? I'm working on a fairly decent system and my Plex library is being accessed over a 10Gbit fiber link, so I don't know that any of that is a bottleneck.

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Or is it not architected for such a thing?

fathom stratus Feb 13, 2023, 3:08 PM

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It's not architected for multi-threading at present.

fathom stratus Feb 13, 2023, 3:12 PM

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pearl wave Oh, I have been. I learned that one early on. 🙂

I would suggest that if runs on those test libraries are taking hours perhaps your test libraries are not small enough.

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 3:12 PM

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Understood.

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Oh, this one isn't a test. I had time to let it just run as I'm working so I figured "screw it" and ran it against the whole thing.

pearl wave Feb 13, 2023, 5:06 PM

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I'm in the process of deleting lots of crap out of the TV shows and getting things how I like them. While I'm doing that, I tested what @rough meteor recommended for a show - I removed every image in the directory OTHER than poster.jpg and a Refresh Metadata didn't pick it up. It works with fanart and season images, just not the poster. Weird.

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