video_resolution filter for 4K (2160p) movies only accepts '4k' as a value

[alexanderkladov]

TLDR at the end.

I just spent hours trying to figure out why the script wasn't picking up any of my 4K movies. It turned out that the only acceptable video_resolution value for 4K is 4k (notice the lowercase "k"). The script won't accept any of these: 2160 or 2160p, 4 or uppercase 4K. Which is super confusing, considering that Full HD & HD resolutions are marked by 1080 and 720 respectively.

Here was my config that didn't work:

collections:
  4K Movies:
    summary: A collection of 4K movies.
    all: true
    filters:
      video_resolution:
        - '2160'
        - '2160p'
        - '4K'
        - '4'

I also tried simply using video_resolution: 2160 (and all other variants like 2160p, 4 or 4K individually), but it didn't work either.

All I was getting after running the scan was:

|===================================================================================================|
|
| Updating collection: 4K Movies...
| Sync Mode: sync
| 
| Collection Filter video_resolution: ['2160', '2160p', '4', '4K']
| 
| Processing all: 
| Processed 817 Movies                                                           
| 
| Detail: summary updated to A collection of 4K movies
| Detail: collection_order updated to alpha
| 
|===================================================================================================|

Seems like a bug to me. At the very least, it should accept uppercase 4K & 2160.

TLDR: if you need to filter out 4K movies, you MUST use all: true && video_resolution: 4k (letter "k" MUST be lowercase). So something like this would work:

collections:
  4K Movies:
    summary: A collection of 4K movies.
    all: true
    filters:
      video_resolution: 4k

[mza921]

This is kind of at the mercy of how Plex stores its metadata. If you look at the XML for any of your 4K movies, you'll see something like videoResolution="4k" (the script does modify the search key to video_resolution, but does nothing with the value).