Plex Footage Sorter

A simple script to process android phone footage default names into plex-friendly filename

• Plex Footage Sorter
  • Description
  • Renaming phone footage as date-based series
    • Caveat - Part Naming
  • Renaming Movpilot downloads as season-based series

Description

This package bundles a set of tools for renaming and/or moving files from various sources into plex-friendly patterns. Most of these are highly specific.

Renaming phone footage as date-based series

Android phones (and possible iPhones, we haven't checked) name video files in the format YYYYMMDD_SSSSSS.EXT. Plex can interpret video files as a date-based tv series if they are named in the format SERIESNAME-YYYY-MM-DD[ - PartX].EXT. This tool is designed for the case where you take a lot of phone footage that you want to organise into a chronological series. We use it for organising our videos of our progress at learning various activities.

To use this utility, dump all of the relevant footage into a folder, and run

plex-footage-sorter date-based SERIESNAME

Caveat - Part Naming

We number parts consecutively for a single day. If there are more videos for that day that are not in the folder, the part numbering will be wrong. We might fix this at a later date.

Renaming Movpilot downloads as season-based series

Movpilot downloads of series episodes do not fit plex structures. For example, downloads from Amazon Prime follow the structure:

root
└── Castlevania
    ├── 1
    |   ├── Witchbottle
    |   |   └── S01E001_witchbottle.mp4
    |   └── Necropolis
    |       └── S01E002_necropolis.mp4
    |       └── S01E002_necropolis.srt
    └── 2
        └── Old Homes
            └── S02E002_old_homes.mp4

and netflix downloads:

root
└── Castlevania
    ├── Season 1
    |   └── Witchbottle
    |       └── S01E001_witchbottle.mp4
    └── Season 2
        └── Old Homes
            └── S02E002_old_homes.mp4

whereas Plex would expect these to look like:

root
└── Castlevania
    ├── Season01
    |   ├── Castlevania - S01E01 - witchbottle.mp4
    |   ├── Castlevania - S01E02 - necropolis.mp4
    |   └── Castlevania - S01E02 - necropolis.srt
    └── Season02
        └── Castlevania - S02E02 - old homes.mp4

Renaming these by hand is tedious, so we have developed the movpilot-series utility.

To use this utility, run

plex-footage-sorter movpilot-series

in the root directory.