Cant get youtube video name to show up in plex as the episode name

[rhythmrice]

I have my Plex server set up so videos from TubeSync go into a TV shows library on plex. Each channel is its own show. Plex respects MM-DD-YYYY for episode orderings instead of S01E01 so there is no problem there. embed thumbnails works and they are displayed perfected in Plex.

My only problem is that each episode name is just "Episode 06-17" showing the month and day (not the year for some reason) I'm not sure where this is coming from.. I really want the YouTube video title to be the episode title in Plex. I have embed metadata turned on in tubesync for my source, and I have my library in Plex set to prefer local metadata.

Does anyone know how I would get this working?

[meeb]

What's your media format set to for the source? Do you know if the "Episode 06-17" is coming from the embedded metadata?

[tcely]

Personally, I have found the "copy .nfo files" feature more useful than embedded metadata.

I've been using the support to read local .nfo files to show channel and start / end timestamps for imported recordings.

You could use it to adjust the episode name to what you prefer. However, I don't think using a non-unique value is a good idea.

[rhythmrice]

@meeb @tcely

the "Episode 06-17" is coming from the data being used for episode ordering. if i change the episode ordering, scanner, or agent, i can get it to say "Episode.6.17"

I have since made a new naming scheme that looks like this

{source_full}E{video_order} {yyyy_mm_dd} {title_full}-{uploader}-{format}.{ext}

and if i name my source somthing like "Playlist Name S01" then in combination with {video_order} it names the files "Playlist Name S01E01 2010-01-01 Title-Uploader--VP9-Opus.mp4

so then the episode names in plex are "Episode 1" "Episode 2" etc But i still cant get the actually Youtube video names to show up in plex. the embeded youtube thumbnails are displayed in plex, so i know plex is using local metadata

i have tried. VP9 and AVC1 (h.264) ive tried Opus and MP4A, and ive tried write nfo, write json, embed metadata

Has anyone been able to get this to work?

edit: when i open the files in mp3tag, they do have the youtube video title in the title field. its just plex is not picking them up

[tcely]

I don't use Plex, so I don't know if such a setting exists, but in Jellyfin the library has a setting about using the title from the filename or from the metadata.

If Plex has something similar you may be able to get it to stop using the filename instead of the title in the metadata.

[rhythmrice]

@tcely I think i got it figured out.. plex cant pull metadata from AVC1 or VP9, only from MKV or MP4. So im gunna have to get something setup to automatically convert the files.

Unless there are plans to add MKV or MP4 as options in tubesync?

[tcely]

I don't think the container format is the issue.

Most of my videos end up using .mkv, even for VP9 or AV1 video codecs.

Maybe yours have .webm extension instead?

If Plex doesn't just treat those files the same as .mkv then I would suggest Plex fix their software. (webm is a subset of mkv, so anything that handled mkv should accept webm too.)