Pluto Movies show up as TV Shows

[Vraz]

@tmm1

This is a display bug in search results

Good by me. Removing the bogus "New Series Pass" was the important part. The incorrect labeling is a trivial-issue (but appreciate knowing the cause). Thanks for the quick turnaround.

[babsonnexus]

I just ran into this, as well. After the movie records and parses the commercial skipping check, can I just copy the file from the TV directory to the Movie directory?

[tmm1]

Not sure what you're referring to. The bug above was fixed, and only affected search results and not recordings.

[babsonnexus]

This listing should be a Movie but it is coming up as a TV Show:

And it is definitely recording as a TV Show:

And I can even prove it is a Movie by the metadata:

[tmm1]

Can you pull up the json for that recording using its ID (x.x.x.x:8089/dvr/files/XXXX). It should contain the original xmltv where it should say if its marked as a movie or not.

[maddox]

Are you using a random Pluto m3u url? If so, then yeah, it’ll show up as a show because the EPG in those don’t have what Channels needs.

You’ll need to use this:

Pluto for Channels

So, now that we support adding Custom Channels via M3U, as mentioned above, here's a nice little tool to get you a Channels optimized Pluto M3U playlist that uses our extended tags to make things look great in Channels. [Screen Shot 2020-11-16 at 8.20.08 PM] [Screen Shot 2020-11-16 at 8.22.38 PM] You can read more here: Project: https://github.com/maddox/pluto-for-channels Custom Channels docs: https://getchannels.com/docs/channels-dvr-server/how-to/custom-channels/

[babsonnexus]

Don't worry @maddox, I have the nice Docker running on my own, even updated to 1.2.6! However, I did just notice that this is a Stirr Channel (also a Docker), so... my miss!

@tmm1, here's the JSON:

[tmm1]

Looks like it says <category>Other</category> only. Its possible that stirr isn't tagging them either, in which case not much stirr-for-channels could do about it.

Moving the mpg is probably your best bet for now.

Probably we should add a way to recategorize recordings as movies too.

[maddox]

@tmm1

Probably we should add a way to recategorize recordings as movies too.

[babsonnexus]

@tmm1

Moving the mpg is probably your best bet for now.

Yep, got that to work. Look forward to testing the recategorize recordings feature!

[Edwin_Perez]

I guess this never happened I planned on recording some classic Scifi/Monster movies from Pluto Channel 9026 but they show up as shows ... see The invisible man returns.

[chDVRuser]

Did you check this to see how Pluto had it categorized?

@tmm1

Can you pull up the json for that recording using its ID (x.x.x.x:8089/dvr/files/XXXX). It should contain the original xmltv where it should say if its marked as a movie or not.

[Edwin_Perez]

Series

{"Description":"A man (Vincent Price) framed for murder uses a serum to become invisible, then escapes to find the killer.","Episode":0,"Genres":["Paranormal"],"IsMovie":false,"IsNews":false,"IsSports":false,"MetadataGenerator":"Channels DVR","OriginalBroadcastDateTime":"2024033016T00:00:00Z","Rating":"","RecordedDateTime":"2024-03-30T16:25:00Z","Season":0,"SubTitle":"","Title":"The Invisible Man Returns"}

[chDVRuser]

I think the phrase maddox used in the past was GIGO
Garbage In Garbage Out

[Edwin_Perez]

Yeah too bad because it is a great channel for old b monster movies. I just move them to imports.

[chDVRuser]

Look for

@tmm1

original xmltv

[Edwin_Perez]

Al l on that Channel marked as series.... and Live and First airing lol.

	<programme start="20240331192500 +0000" stop="20240331205900 +0000" channel="universal-monsters">
			<title lang="en">The Night Walker</title>
			<icon src="https://images.pluto.tv/series/65ca5d7b44bc6e0013faed96/tile.jpg?fill=blur&amp;fit=fill&amp;fm=jpg&amp;h=900&amp;q=75&amp;w=900"/>
			<date>20240331</date>
			<category lang="en">Series</category>
			<series-id system="pluto">65ca5d7b44bc6e0013faed96</series-id>
			<desc lang="en">A lawyer (Robert Taylor) advises a blind man&apos;s rich widow (Barbara Stanwyck) tormented by nightmares.</desc>
			<category lang="en">Paranormal</category>
			<category lang="en">Paranormal</category>
			<live/>
			<episode-num system="original-air-date">20240331192500 +0000</episode-num>

	</programme>

[chDVRuser]

Just like the Live Series, Phantom of the Opera

<programme start=\"20240331174100 -0700\" stop=\"20240331191800 -0700\" channel=\"universal-monsters\">
	<title lang=\"en\">Phantom of the Opera</title>
	<icon src=\"https://images.pluto.tv/series/65ca5d8544bc6e0013fafcdf/tile.jpg?fill=blur&amp;fit=fill&amp;fm=jpg&amp;h=900&amp;q=75&amp;w=900\"/>
	<date>20240330</date>
	<category lang=\"en\">Series</category>
	<series-id system=\"pluto\">65ca5d8544bc6e0013fafcdf</series-id>
	<desc lang=\"en\">An acid-scarred composer (Herbert Lom) has his dwarf helper bring an opera singer (Heather Sears) to his London sewer hide-out.</desc>
	<category lang=\"en\">Paranormal</category>
	<category lang=\"en\">Paranormal</category>
	<live/>
	<episode-num system=\"original-air-date\">20240331174100 -0700</episode-num>
</programme>

[Edwin_Perez]

I just move them to imports when they are done recording and match them if needed.

[Jean0987654321]

Either that or avoid using Pluto's xml source and use the epg Channels provides. Seems like an issue with that dreaded epg from pluto...