Bonus Content ("Extras") now fails

[respl]

I really question my sanity since both Infuse Pro 8.4.8 over SMB and Plex PMS independently fail all Bonus Content formats I tested. I’m not using Plex PMS in Infuse, just for this test. I’m confident the Bonus Content (hereafter called “extras”) worked when introduced in 8.4. The following structure worked then:

/The Big Bang Theory
   /Season 01
      Quantum Mechanics of The Big Bang Theory-featurette.mkv

Some release later, all my extras disappeared and just showed up in Library > Other. Both Infuse over SMB and Plex PMS fail with the following four extras test files. I must be an idiot! I have both refreshed the Library and refreshed metadata for both Infuse (smb) and Plex PMS:

/The Big Bang Theory
   /Season 01
      Quantum Mechanics of The Big Bang Theory-featurette.mkv
      The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E17.Quantum Mechanics of The Big Bang Theory-featurette.mkv
      /Featurettes
         Quantum Mechanics of The Big Bang Theory-featurette.mkv
         Quantum Mechanics test test.mkv

Note that the file The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E17.Quantum Mechanics of The Big Bang Theory-featurette.mkv does not end up in Infuse Library > Other, but as a duplicate episode S01E17. I followed the guidelines in Metadata 101.

Question 1: What am I doing wrong?

Question 2: Does Infuse support ‘Plex style extras’ for Infuse over SMB? Hence, supporting extras tied to a specific season, but not to a specific episode, (e.g. tvshow-title / season 01 / text_string-featurette.mkv)?

[NC_Bullseye]

Maybe try

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E17-featurette.mkv

in the same folder as the episode

[NC_Bullseye]

This is what I tested for file names

And this is what I got in Infuse

This is using only Infuse, no servers like Plex, Emby, etc. over SMB to a NAS

[respl]

Yes, the -featurette and the episode both were in the same folder (‘season 01’).

One difference is that I’m not using release year as part of the show title and show episodes. Relevant?

[NC_Bullseye]

The name change should fix the problem.

[respl]

Lucky you! It does not work for me. I am curious: Are you also able to make “Castle 2009-featurette.mkv” to work (dropping the episode number S01E01, but in the same ‘Season 01’ folder)?

[NC_Bullseye]

I believe that the “-featurette” must follow the S0xE0x, not after the additional episode info like name, res, etc.

[respl]

I believe that the “-featurette” must follow the S0xE0x, not after the additional episode info like name, res, etc.

Thanks for the help so far. One piece (pun unintended ) of the puzzle is solved! The following fails:

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01.1080p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-NTb.mkv
The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01-featurette.mkv (becomes ep duplicate)

The following works:

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01.mkv
The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01-featurette.mkv

I see this as a bug. Episode names should not have naming restrictions to make -featurette to work. And the featurette file should be allowed a text string after episode name SxEx to be used as a ‘extras’ title in Infuse; especially to distinguish between multiple extras of same episode. This used to work for 8.4! Hence this should be allowed:

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01.1080p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-NTb.mkv
The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01.Quantum Mechanics of The Big Bang Theory-featurette.mkv

[NC_Bullseye]

@respl

One difference is that I’m not using release year as part of the show title and show episodes. Relevant?

I don’t think it should matter but it does help on some TV shows so I just got in the habit of adding the year to the TV show folder and the episodes.

I think I have it figured out, you need to put the type of extra right after the S0xE0x and nothing afer it except the file type like .mkv.

You can however on the actual episode put what ever info you want after the S0xE0x and that will work fine.

Here’s what I just tested for The Big Bang Theory and it worked.

Gives This

[respl]

Maybe try

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E17-featurette.mkv

in the same folder as the episode

Bullseye, are you able to make an extras video that is only tied to the season, and not an episode? Is this not supported, even though Plex supports this for TV Shows?

[NC_Bullseye]

@respl

Bullseye, are you able to make an extras video that is only tied to the season, and not an episode? Is this not supported, even though Plex supports this for TV Shows?

Give me a bit to experiment, have a few other things going but I’ll give it a shot.

[respl]

@NC_Bullseye

You can however on the actual episode put what ever info you want after the S0xE0x and that will work fine.

Here’s what I just tested for The Big Bang Theory and it worked.

As you can see from my post right above yours, it did not work for my episode name.

[NC_Bullseye]

@respl

As you can see from my post right above yours, it did not work for my episode name.

You missed this

@NC_Bullseye

I think I have it figured out, you need to put the type of extra right after the S0xE0x and nothing afer it except the file type like .mkv.

If you take out everything in the extra before the “-featurette” it will work. You don’t need the extra verbage on the actual feature file, just the season and episode number and the extra type.

Like this

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01-featurette.mkv

[respl]

@NC_Bullseye

If you take out everything in the extra before the “-featurette” it will work. You don’t need the extra verbage on the actual feature file, just the season and episode number and the extra type.

Well, yes and no. Let me re-iterate and emphasize. The two examples below both fail for me, by Infuse making the ‘extra’ an ep duplicate. Can you reproduce (use exactly my filenames) the fail:

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01.1080p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-NTb.mkv
The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01-featurette.mkv (becomes ep duplicate)

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01 blah blah blah.mkv
The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01-featurette.mkv (becomes ep duplicate)

[NC_Bullseye]

@respl

Can you reproduce (use exactly my filenames) the fail:

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01.1080p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-NTb.mkv
The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01-featurette.mkv (becomes ep duplicate)

Yes

Directory

[respl]

@NC_Bullseye

Yes

I think your “yes” affirms that with my episode names the -featurette fails. But you attached a screen shot where the featurette succeeded. Confused.

Something else is different on my side. When it works, the extra is named “Featurette / Featurette” both on my iPad and on Apple TV.

It’s getting late in Europe. This is my last post for today. Thank you so much for all the testing and screen shots! I hope to see Infuse handle:

1. all legal episode names combined with extras having text after SxEx
2. extras tied to a season and not just an episode

[respl]

@NC_Bullseye

Before I go to bed. I can confirm that I now have exactly your folder structure and file names for the first episode and -featurette, and it fails: the featurette becomes an episode duplicate.

[NC_Bullseye]

Know a good exorcist?

[NC_Bullseye]

Just in case a second set of eyes may help spot something, could you provide a screen cap of your directory for this show when you get a chance?

[respl]

I may try to remove all files and folders outside “Season 01” tomorrow, in order to debug. Here is a screen shot from my Synology file browser: