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The answer seemed quite clear to me. It's money
Plex on one hand which generates income from various sources to pay programmers etc v UMS which is developed by volunteers and distributed for free.

@Nadahar
Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware.
Cheers

I would modify the UserAgentSearch and UpnpDetailsSearch in the LG-WebOS.conf file as a starting point so your TV uses this file. You could try changing the UserAgentSearch to: LG. (w|W)ebOS TV|LG (W|w)ebOSTV|[LG] webos TV|LG webosTV|LGE webos TV And the UpnpDetailsSearch to: LG. WebOS TV|LG WebOSTV...

Although I am running Linux, I made a folder (7 sub folders) which was 370 characters long plus the extra characters for the file name. It exceeded the 256 character limit and I couldn't access it from a Windows computer (using SAMBA) as it was too long. But.... using UMS, my LG TV was able to drill...

On a different note, I see you are using the LG-LA6200 (modified) conf file. In that you have entries for stream extensions. StreamExtensions = asf,wmv,avi,divx,mp4,m4v,mov,3gp,3g2,mkv,ts,trp,tp,mts,m2ts,vob,mpg,mpeg,mp3,jpg,jpeg,jpe,jps,mpo" As well as having most in "Supported Video Formats". I be...

I am running LG WebOS TV's
I just renamed a video to "Extremely.Wicked.Shockingly.Evil.and.Vile.2019.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H264-CMRG" and I can see and play that video.

Maybe post the full path including that video name.

I'm thinking you have violated the windows file name limitation. This limitation includes the complete path and file name. If you are using windows 10, you can modify the registry to overcome this limit. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\...

mik_s wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:09 am

It would be great if this was customisable. I prefer the format "Show S01E10 - Episode Title" myself

Also my preferred method. I don't use prettify but I manually change all my titles to this format if they are not already like so.

You don't have an entry similiar to this in your log file?:
Using database located at: /root/.config/UMS/database

V6.8 was working quite well for me.
Unfortunately it did not support newer versions of Mediainfo.

I then used V7.4 which supports newer versions of Mediainfo and worked quite well as well.

All versions after that have given me one problem or another.