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> can't handle non-formal video files like home movies, FWIW I have videos on my Plex system ranging back for several years taken from at least 3 different cam

by gregmac 10y ago

> can't handle non-formal video files like home movies, FWIW I have videos on my Plex system ranging back for several years taken from at least 3 different cameras (highest end from only a Nikon V1 mirrorless though) and 5 phones/tablets. I can't say I've played all of these back on all devices, but I have (or have had) a Nvidia Shield, Chromecast, Samsung ~2012 Smart TV, Roku2, Asrock Ion 330 running Plex Home Theater on Win8 and later Win10, as well as a couple phones/tablets and PC (via web UI) as an interface to Plex. Really the only time I've ever had a playback issue is when my made-from-old-parts server has the CPU maxed out due to some other app going crazy, and then Plex playback will pause a couple times a minute. I really can't think of any time I've had content it just can't play. I'm a big fan of Plex. I started using MythTV back in mid-2000s, switched to SageTV for a few years (due to the awesome HD300 devices), and very reluctantly (at first) switched to Plex ~3-4 years ago.

mistermann 10y ago
Oh, it will play them just fine, but good luck finding the video you're looking for when the keyword starts at the 50th character in the filename. "Oh, that's such an edge case" - well, sure, but it is also completely not difficult to implement: a) wildcard search on filenames b) add a list mode that shows the complete filename, rather than having to sit and watch it scroll (say you've got 50 videos number #1 thru #50 and you want to play #39 - have fun with that)
- djsumdog 10y ago
  I use to use Plex and really liked it. If I ever got a TV again, that's what I was going to use, but I had no idea it had a 50 character filename search limitation. That's so weird!
  - mistermann 10y ago
    Oh no, there's no limit, it just can't search filenames (last time I checked anyways), and there's no practical way to view long filenames.
    - Nadya 10y ago
      There's a thumbnail view, a detailed view, and a list view. Does the list view truncate the title? I only started using Plex a few days ago but I don't recall it cutting names short when I swapped to the List View for a moment. I'll check again tonight when I get the opportunity - but I imagine a name would need to be quite long for List View to not be good enough (assuming it doesn't truncate). E: Thank you gregmac for checking and reporting in with your findings. :)
    - gregmac 10y ago
      I just checked on mine: * Unless there is other metadata, the filename becomes the title, and the title is searchable. * Text search appears to be fulltext-style: * A title like "2017-01-12 09-23-45.mpg" will be found with a search for "01-12". * "20170112" is found when I search for "201701" but not if I search for "0112". * The web UI list view is quite wide, but still appears to truncate after about 80 characters (even though that's less than half the screen width on my 1920px wide monitor).
      - mistermann 10y ago
        Well that's fantastic news, glad to see they changed their mind. Sadly, it still fails for me as many of my file names are quite long with the differentiating aspect being beyond the 80th character. The option to wrap filenames would fix that problem.

by gregmac 10y ago

mistermann 10y ago

Oh, it will play them just fine, but good luck finding the video you're looking for when the keyword starts at the 50th character in the filename. "Oh, that's such an edge case" - well, sure, but it is also completely not difficult to implement: a) wildcard search on filenames b) add a list mode that shows the complete filename, rather than having to sit and watch it scroll (say you've got 50 videos number #1 thru #50 and you want to play #39 - have fun with that)

djsumdog 10y ago
I use to use Plex and really liked it. If I ever got a TV again, that's what I was going to use, but I had no idea it had a 50 character filename search limitation. That's so weird!
- mistermann 10y ago
  Oh no, there's no limit, it just can't search filenames (last time I checked anyways), and there's no practical way to view long filenames.
  - Nadya 10y ago
    There's a thumbnail view, a detailed view, and a list view. Does the list view truncate the title? I only started using Plex a few days ago but I don't recall it cutting names short when I swapped to the List View for a moment. I'll check again tonight when I get the opportunity - but I imagine a name would need to be quite long for List View to not be good enough (assuming it doesn't truncate). E: Thank you gregmac for checking and reporting in with your findings. :)
  - gregmac 10y ago
    I just checked on mine: * Unless there is other metadata, the filename becomes the title, and the title is searchable. * Text search appears to be fulltext-style: * A title like "2017-01-12 09-23-45.mpg" will be found with a search for "01-12". * "20170112" is found when I search for "201701" but not if I search for "0112". * The web UI list view is quite wide, but still appears to truncate after about 80 characters (even though that's less than half the screen width on my 1920px wide monitor).
    - mistermann 10y ago
      Well that's fantastic news, glad to see they changed their mind. Sadly, it still fails for me as many of my file names are quite long with the differentiating aspect being beyond the 80th character. The option to wrap filenames would fix that problem.