Been browsing around and I can’t find the question.
How can I search for movies in 3D in my PLEX library please?
Generate a separate 3D movie section.
How do you mean?
Do you mean to have a separate library for 3D movies?
That’s not what I’m looking for…
I’m using CouchPotato to download my stuff, and the renamed includes the quality and 3D or not in the file, then notify PLEX.
PLEX considers a lot of specifications from the files… I can look for quality, etc… when filtering.
I was looking for a way to filter 3D movies out.
If i have to move around my files manually, this defeats the purpose of my set-up…
What about tagging the movies with “3D” in the genre? I’m not aware of an automatic method for Plex to tag media based on filename like this, unless you custom script it.
Actually, just came across one of @cayars posts that could have something in there for you.
Does Plex support playing 3D movies?
Plex plays the video stream. If the stream contains a 3D video AND the client can switch into 3D mode, then YES it can play 3D. If the client can’t switch into 3D mode, Plex will play the stream as SBS or OU (which it actually is streamed as). Everything depends on how the client interprets the stream.
The “Plex for Samsung” app automatically switches into 3D when a 3D stream is detected. 
So can the Plex clients play 3D videos?
I personally have used the Plex for Samsung app to play 3D movies. I can vouch it works… and works DAMN well!
Good to hear! Thanks.
Yes PLEX can play 3D movies I’ve just listened to a few 1080p SBS movie, was awesome.
But back to my topic… I’ve read the links and stuff…
Seriously though… PLEX extracts the quality of a movie (i.e.: 1080p), tags it as so, and then you can filter it.
Why does it not to the exact same with god forsaken 3D movies, seriously.
My renamed writes 3D in the filename too.
Can’t be that hard, no?
@ucloutier said:
Seriously though… PLEX extracts the quality of a movie (i.e.: 1080p), tags it as so, and then you can filter it.
You have a misconception here in that you think a 1080P SBS 3D movie is intrinsically different from any other 1080P resolution video in a way that’s easily discernible by Plex. While there are flags that do so if a video is frame packed 3D, I don’t think there’s anything like that for SBS. As far as a media player is concerned, SBS is just a 1920x1080 video. The resolution is an attribute of the video stream, so sure it can read that quality. What you are talking about is an attribute of the content, and knowing something about that is entirely different. You’ll notice all the work to make take a half SBS video is done on the display device, your TV/projector, whatever, not on the media player, because the media player doesn’t really need to know or care. It’s just a 1080P video like any other and it just plays the video back and lets the display end deal with it.
So the 3D state of the content is sorta like that old commercial where the one kid is naming cars from the engine sound, and the other kid asks, “but what color is it?”. As for the names, other than for searching sites for metadata about things, the name isn’t used for anything as far as I can tell.
I think other people’s suggestion works best(and is the one I do as well), just put 3D content in a separate movie library and call it a day. It’s not as elegant as the play version method I suspect you want, but improvements have been asked for in the play version options for some time, and they have not happened yet.
