IAFD - Scenes / Chapters

[jocklover]

Is there handling for scenes / chapters on IAFD?

I have separate files for each scene of a video. IAFD lists each scene within the movie, not separately. For obvious reasons I would like to avoid naming each file with the same name to get a match.

Here is the IAFD listing: https://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=blake+ellis%3a+total+submission/year=2019/blake-ellis-total-submission.htm

(Some content from Dream Boy Bondage is available from other sources as separate scenes but not this one and some others.)

Thanks for a great tool!

[JPH71]

Plex handles multi-part movies quite well...

I would simply name the movie as: (Dream Boy Bondage) - Blake Ellis- Total Submission (2019) - Part 1.mp4 (Dream Boy Bondage) - Blake Ellis- Total Submission (2019) - Part 2.mp4 (Dream Boy Bondage) - Blake Ellis- Total Submission (2019) - Part 3.mp4

This way it shows up as only one entry in Plex. N.B - if you have collections enabled and you do not want a "Blake Ellis" collection being created follow "Blake Ellis" with a hyphen (-) directly... no space between the two

Jason

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 02:12, jocklover @.***> wrote:

Is there handling for scenes / chapters on IAFD?

I have separate files for each scene of a video. IAFD lists each scene within the movie, not separately. For obvious reasons I would like to avoid naming each file with the same name to get a match.

Here is the IAFD listing: https://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=blake+ellis%3a+total+submission/year=2019/blake-ellis-total-submission.htm

(Some content from Dream Boy Bondage is available from other sources as separate scenes but not this one and some others.)

Thanks for a great tool!

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[jocklover]

Thank you @JPH71 for the tip on Plex joining parts! Using the parts nomenclature I was able to get Plex to join most of the files. However, Parts 10 & 11 are not joining. Also, I am still not getting a match to the IAFD record.

File list:

[CodyBerenson]

Hi @jocklover !

Per Plex documentation, Only stacks up to 8 parts are supported. https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/

In these cases, Plex recommends joining the files outside of plex and they provide an unofficial guide and tool recommendation in the above link.

Personally, I use avidemux http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

If all of the files are similar filetypes, similar dimensions tools such as avidemux do this really quickly, without re-encoding.

Cheers!

[JPH71]

Hi @jocklover https://github.com/jocklover

I use mkvtoolkit to join files

Join files that are continuous and are off the same video dimensions

Jason

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 14:30, Cody Berenson @.***> wrote:

Hi @jocklover https://github.com/jocklover !

Per Plex documentation, Only stacks up to 8 parts are supported.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/

In these cases, Plex recommends joining the files outside of plex and they provide an unofficial guide and tool recommendation.

Personally, I use avidemux http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

If all of the files are similar filetypes, similar dimensions tools such as avidemux do this really quickly, without re-encoding.

Cheers!

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[jocklover]

Apologies, it looks like I led the topic in the wrong direction - my ultimate goal is not to join files. I am looking for a way to get PGMA to recognize individual scenes of a movie. I thought there was a file nomenclature that could be used for scenes. IAFD lists all scenes for each DBB movie under one title, but I have typically found the scenes in separate files and am hoping for a way for PGMA to recognize them. Thanks!

[JPH71]

As Cody mentioned - you can only have a maximum of 8 separate scenes stacked into one title. That's why I think three of your parts were not recognised. Try adding the parts 1 by 1 and see where it starts breaking down

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 23:04, jocklover @.***> wrote:

Apologies, it looks like I led the topic in the wrong direction - my ultimate goal is not to join files. I am looking for a way to get PGMA to recognize individual scenes of a movie. I thought there was a file nomenclature that could be used for scenes. IAFD lists all scenes for each DBB movie under one title, but I have typically found the scenes in separate files and am hoping for a way for PGMA to recognize them. Thanks!

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[jocklover]

Is there a way that I can name a file such that PGMA matches it to IAFD? Can PGMA ignore certain portions of a file name such that I can name each as a Scene (Part / Chapter / etc) and it still match to a movie in IAFD. Is this functionality built into the existing code? Can it be added? Is it an update to the RegEx (which I have no familiarity with)?

I am not concerned about stacking / joining / etc.

[CodyBerenson]

Hi @jocklover I believe I'm confused about the challenge you're having. Are you saying you aren't able to match this file in IAFD at all? My responses to your questions below.

Is there a way that I can name a file such that PGMA matches it to IAFD?

Yes. In This case, properly naming the file: (Dream Boy Bondage) - Blake Ellis - Total Submission (2019).mp4 will match against IAFD:

Can PGMA ignore certain portions of a file name such that I can name each as a Scene (Part / Chapter / etc) and it still match to a movie in IAFD.

Further, combining Plex native functionality of stacking with PGMA's matching, you can stack up to 8 files in that match that Plex will recognize as 1 file and play continuously in order:

Is this functionality built into the existing code? Can it be added? Stacking is native to Plex, matching as I've shown above is in the PGMA code.

Is it an update to the RegEx (which I have no familiarity with)? This is what your RegEx should be set to. If yours is different and you need to update it, you will need to stop PMS and restart PMS in order for it to take effect.

I am not concerned about stacking / joining / etc. That is up to you. If you have all 10 of your scenes located in the same folder with the only differentiation in filename being Part 0X, Plex will automatically stack. If you wish to have 10 separate entries in Plex vs 1, you will need to locate each scene in its own folder

Hopefully this clarified. Happy Independence Day, if you're in the USA.

Cody

[jocklover]

Thank you @CodyBerenson - based on your response, I am naming the files correctly, but they are not still matching. (Fun fact PLEX has apparently upped the stacking to 9 titles.)

Digging into my library a little more, it looks like may I have a wider issue w/ IAFD matching (that may not have anything to with the parts naming). I am seeing issues with some Military Classified scenes as well.

Examples of MC not matching IAFD:

• (Military Classified) - Carlos- Blowjob (2019).mp4 --> https://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=carlos%3a+blowjob/year=2019/carlos-blowjob.htm
• (Military Classified) - Astin- Blowjob (2019).mp4 --> https://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=astin%3a+blowjob/year=2019/astin-blowjob.htm
• (Military Classified) - Brando-Justino- Anal (2019).mp4 --> https://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=brando-justino%3a+anal/year=2019/brando-justino-anal.htm

(I have tried both "- " & " - " in the title name.)

However, some scenes are matching to IAFD, so PGMA is likely working, and I'm just missing something? Sorry this thread is taking a long and winding path (I can open a separate post if needed).

I know that PGMA can be particular about nomenclature convention but just am not seeing what I am missing. AND THANKS FOR SUCH GREAT ENGAGMENT ON MY THREAD!

[CodyBerenson]

@jocklover I get the same results for these three titles.

@JPH71 Can you look into when you get a chance. I'm unable to match any of these titles on IAFD as well. Cheers!

[CodyBerenson]

@jocklover if you are still unable to match the Dream Boy Bondage file, Jason will need your specific IAFD log to troubleshoot, since it works fine for us.

So, please stop your pms, restart it, attempt to fix match against the title, and then attach the log. Please see the FAQ for where to find the log.

[jocklover]

Log attached: com.plexapp.agents.IAFD.log I ran it for the Part 01-09 stacked media, and the Part 10 & Part 11 individual medias.

Looks like it may not handling the "Part ##" portion of the name and failing to match (but not sure).

Here is the RegEx that is in the IAFD settings (I don't know how to ready it and it should still be the default): ^((?P.+?)) - (?P