Incorrect Categorization: shows showing up as movies

[tenzone]

the plex interface is showing some shows, as movies. Is this an issue with my EPG, or can i edit something to let plex know how to handle shows v movies.

the reason for this, is that series cannot be selected for ongoing recording, unless plex recognizes them as series and not movies.

[vorghahn]

As far as I am aware this is a Plex Limitation when working with XML files. In saying that if you or anyone else knows of a way to fix this then let me know. It's an issue I've been aware of for ages and afaik it affects all xmltv feeds for EPG. It's quite frustrating!

I'll tag this as a limitation for the time being.

[vorghahn]

To add detail, this is related to the EPG data in the XML and it being parsed in Plex itself. If the XML doesn't have exactly what Plex is looking for then it defaults to Movies.

It seems to be needing "dd_progid" which is the episode numbering system used by Gracenote. Though there may be an alternate method.