kieraneglin
commented
8 months ago Hey there! There are some settings that should do exactly what you need re: banners and NFOs in the Media Profile settings, but the only way those settings will work is if your media is set to split into "seasons"
This isn't ideal, but it's the only way I could think of to deterministically find the root-level non-shared folder for a given series AND provide support for all major media center apps. Other apps take a more assertive approach in how they name/store your media, but since PF was originally designed for archiving I wanted to allow maximum customization of the storage location/format.
The question then is how do you split the content into "seasons" when there isn't any season metadata stored in the YouTube video? I took an approach used by ytdl-sub and split content into seasons based on the year of upload so you get something like this:
Show Name/
Season 2021/
s2021e0101 - Vid Title.mp4
Season 2022/
...
Other Show Name/
Season 2023/
s2023e0101 - Vid Title.mp4
Season 2024/
...This seems to work well on all major media center apps. If you're curious, you can see the logic that goes into determining the root folder here.
Practically speaking then, my advice is to set your profile's Output Path Template to something like this: /shows/{{ source_custom_name }}/Season {{ season_from_date }}/{{ season_episode_from_date }} - {{ title }}.{{ ext }}. You can remove the /shows/ at the beginning if you want, but the important stuff is what comes after that.
I've also recently added presets to profiles - there's a "Media Center" preset there that should set you up!
Let me know if this works 🤙
hernandito
Hi.
Following up my earlier feature request. I have had a chance to review the changes you have made.
Earlier you mentioned making Pinchflat (PF) pltform agnostic, and not focused on individual applications/media players. My current comments below keep this in mind. You mentioned being able for users to create custom scripts. I am not sure at what point in PF's process, would this script be executed and how it can be called out.
PF organizes downloads in unRAID /mnt/user/Media/YouTube/ChannelName/IndividualVideo. In each video folder it adds the downloaded files... mp4, nfo, and xxx-thumb.jpg.
My Kodi is properly picking up the folder structure correctly. I see 1) a list of channels. In each channel, I see 2) the list of all videos. Going into each video, I see 3) what should be info for the video.
When I go into 1) it would be great if one could see all the Channel banners. I am not sure if these can be downloaded via the YT scraping method. I am not anticipating having a ton of channels. I can manually download the banner, and copy it to the root of the channel folder and rename it properly (banner.jpg for Kodi). But automating this in a custom script would be great.
When I go into 2), we see the list of videos. It would be great if there was an NFO with the channel's info. I know you are scraping the NFO for the video (more on this later), but the info/description for the channel itself would be great. Once in 2) we have the opportunity to see the thumbnail image for each video. I simply copied the xxx-thumb.jpg and copied it to a file called folder.jpg. This shown the thumbnails beautifully.
When I go into 3), I see the video alone and the xxx-thumb.jpg is properly displayed. I am not sure if it is reading the jpg file, or if it's displaying the embedded thumbnail file. Nothing to do here. however, I should be seeing the NFO info here, but Kodi is not reading properly. A quick look at the nfo and compared to a stock Kodi nfo, the main items are named the same... I tried copying regular nfos from both movies and episodes, and none displayed the data. I think for now this is a Kodi issue.
As I mentioned above, I am not sure how custom scripts would operate as PF is doing its scraping/downloading. Should there be an entry in each Media Profile... something that injects a script command at the proper step that, for example, copies the xx-thumb.jpg to a folder.jpg file?
On a separate note, when PF is downloading a channel, there are also playlists in that channel (the playlist videos are included in the channel's video as individual files. I think placing the individual playlist videos into a separate folder would be nice. something like:
This would make watching the playlists nicely organized.
After all my long-winded explanations above... we summarize:
You should create a support thread in the unRAID form. If you are OK with it, I can post the above into that thread. This way Pinchlist gets more exposure/traction. For example, I am not a Plex/Jellyfin expert, people at the forum can chime in on how they would customize so it works with Plex.
Thank you!