Plex libraries of "Other Videos" type are synced as TV Shows or Movies in Kodi - How to avoid that?

[Stele77]

Hi!
Thanks for this amazing addon!
I have one problem though, where i am not sure if i am doing something wrong.
I have multiple Plex libraries of "Other videos" type in Plex, and not as Movies or TV Shows. Those are 1000s of e.g. YouTube rips, TV recordings, which have no TVDB or MovieDB entries. No way in hell i can or want to create new TVDB entries for them, and i am content with browsing them by filename alone.
But when i sync those libraries into Kodi, they are showing up in the "Movies" and "TV Show" hubs/libraries.

Is there are way to avoid that, and still sync them to Kodi?
For now i can only choose to not sync those, and instead import them into Kodi normally/directly (with "none" selected as media type for the library).

Thanks in advance!

[gibxxi]

I have a similar situation. I would just avoid adding those kinds of libraries to Plex in the first place, unless of course, you absolutely need to access that content away from your local network (i.e: away from home). Simply add those folders / sources to Kodi installs 'directly' as a manually configured 'source' within Kodi itself, and select the checkbox to 'ignore this source when updating library' (or whatever the exact wording is).

Since it's very unlikely that you will be scraping these types of media with either Plex's or Kodi's scraper tools, and by extension, there will be no need to add metadata about those files to the database, in either section of the library (TV Shows / Movies), then take the path of least resistance, and reduce the amount of time either Plex or Kodi has to spend attempting to process media it's never going to find a match for, via a scraper addons, from the get-go.

You can still browse that content by adding it as a source in Kodi directly, but without the overhead of having either Kodi OR Plex having to do work on it, and you'll still be able to play it back as normal. Ask yourself the question, do I absolutely, utterly, HAVE to be able to access this media at all times, at home, or while away? If the answer is no, then don't ever add it to the Plex Media server, just access it via Kodi direct, as a 'source', as I've already suggested. This is what I plan on doing, at any rate. Assuming i've not overlooked something about PlexKodiConnect and the way it works, that prevents this (I'll be using DirectPlay Mode).

Dan / Gib.