Hi, long time user but first time posting ....

I use get_iplayer (2.91) with Plex, in general the file naming has worked so that the metadata lookup on tvdb.com correctly populates the information in Plex. Occasional manual file names changes required.

I set PVR to record Silent Witness Series 18 and it seem that there are no episode numbers, therefore recording of this weeks Part 1 failed because it sees them both as the same when it tries to write the output file:

graham@mothership:~/.get_iplayer$ get_iplayer --long |grep Silent
3894: Silent Witness: Series 18 - Part 1, BBC One, Crime,Drama, default, 15 days 8 hours ago - Nikki and Jack strive to track down a sniper at large in London and stem a public crisis.
3895: Silent Witness: Series 18 - Part 2, BBC One, Crime,Drama, default, 15 days 8 hours ago - Nikki and Jack investigate links between the victims to close the net on the killer.
3896: Silent Witness: Series 18 - Part 1, BBC One, Crime,Drama, default, 0 days 8 hours ago - Nikki and Jack investigate a man killed by a train on the London underground.

Anyone seeing the same problem and if so is there a resolution?

Thanks
Graham

Don't use a custom scraper-friendly value for Silent Witness. The default file prefix will avoid naming conflicts on download, and you can then rename the files appropriately after download. This is a peculiarity of Silent Witness and perhaps a few other series where "episodes" are split into two parts. You don't need to make any changes for other programmes.

Ok, thanks. I have removed "Plex friendly" custom file prefix now in my options file and will see how things pan out.

You may want to leave your Plex file prefix in the options file (for other programmes) and create a preset with different file prefix for Silent Witness. The preset can be specified in a pvr job as well. All you really need to do is add to your usual file prefix to ensure unique file names for Silent Witness episodes.

Plex ignores everything after the s00e00 so you are safe to include <pid> at the end of the prefix on all pvr jobs. I include <mode> too.

It also supports multi part episodes (s18e01-pt1) but I think you would have to edit the filename to add this after the recording.