Ability to navigate menus, choose, etc. interact.
I have some full ISO movies, because sometimes I like to keep the lossless quality, keep the bonus features and menus. When I try to play any of these back on my Roku, iOS, or android phone, there is no way to navigate the menus, and therefor, choose content to play. The initial menu will play, but we are unable to control anything else beyond this point. If the PMS could see when it it is playing back a full ISO, perhaps the directional pad and such can change to a full remote, so we can navigate, just like watching a DVD, but on any client. Just having this available in Laika is a drag!
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Have the admins/devs/ninjas stated that's the correct method? Hitting a plus there gives you a rep point, AFAIK it isn't for feature voting.
yes they have. its what elan meant by upvote the FIRST post http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/46128-rules-for-this-forum/page__view__findpost__p__290064
no one cares about anyones rep Devs are treating it similar as a Facebook Like button rather than counting every post with a +1 in any given thread. The only thing that does is bump a thread i guess.
Interesting. To say no one cares about rep is inaccurate. If that was the case no one would be up/down voting posts outside of this section, which is clearly not the case.
Hate to resurrect fully old threads, but would be a huge fan of this feature - getting ready to rip a big DVD/BD library, and would love to have support for those in a simple format, and to have all the special features still work for non-technical members of the household.
Hate to resurrect fully old threads, but would be a huge fan of this feature - getting ready to rip a big DVD/BD library, and would love to have support for those in a simple format, and to have all the special features still work for non-technical members of the household.
It's a no go, IMHO....
Tobias, one of the devs said that this is a lost case, due to the the point, that iso spawns so much, and most of it is not optimized for streaming, which Plex req.
Go mp4, or even better....mkv....
/Tommy
It's a no go, IMHO....
Tobias, one of the devs said that this is a lost case, due to the the point, that iso spawns so much, and most of it is not optimized for streaming, which Plex req.
Go mp4, or even better....mkv....
/Tommy
Ya I think the closest that plex will ever support is the MakeMKV equivalent of extracting all the tracks (as is) and naming them to be picked up.. Focusing on a way to attache special feature to existing detected videos might be a better request.
It is just a suggestion... directly support ISOs would be cool.
If the only point is lossless, you can use MakeMKV or other tools to make an MKV of it, which is supported. MKVs made in this way are, in fact, lossless in regards to the content, creating one file for each item. If you set to minimum time to 3600, it will pick up only feature-length content, for example.
Yeah, I'm familiar with encoding and different container options - beyond a certain point, I don't really care about quality, with the exception of 1 tv in the house, no one's going to be focusing on it that much to even tell the difference.
My big thing is that my significant other has been picking up a bunch of blu-rays lately to get the special features, in addition to the main content. I'm sick of having a giant pile of discs around that I can't index/search/group, so digitizing is going to happen, just I have a feeling I'll get more than a little pushback if I start going "And now you can't watch all the extra stuff, which is why you bought this to begin with...".
Would totally go for some version of mkv naming/detection to be able to pick up all the extras, assuming there's some decent way to provide a "menu-like" functionality.
Would totally go for some version of mkv naming/detection to be able to pick up all the extras, assuming there's some decent way to provide a "menu-like" functionality.
When ripping, you simply create a new mkv for the special stuff, and if a movie, put it in a "Home Movie" section, and if a TV-Serie, add it as a special like the guide below says:
http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/Media_Naming_and_Organization_Guide
And when all above is said, I hear you, and feel your pain, but with Plex, been a streaming server, It's a no-go
Alternative would be like XBMC, been a local one, and not streaming, AFAIK
/T
Sadly not all of the extras on the discs are indexed somewhere. Thats the big issue really with incuding them in plex. Alot of shows have some extras included as season 0, but thetvdb.com usually only counts stuff that is aired on tv.
thetvdb.com usually only counts stuff that is aired on tv.
True, but you can name a special s00e1000.myfile, and Plex will pick it up, regardless of it been part of thetvdb
/T
Ech, can't even be close to the movie itself from a navigation standpoint? Any way it'd be possible to add a naming scheme for these things in a movie's folder at least? Will be a PITA to transcode each, but if I go through that, would much rather they at least be close links off of the movie - maybe just an unvalidated naming scheme that will add the file as an option on the movie detail page?
Ech, can't even be close to the movie itself from a navigation standpoint? Any way it'd be possible to add a naming scheme for these things in a movie's folder at least? Will be a PITA to transcode each, but if I go through that, would much rather they at least be close links off of the movie - maybe just an unvalidated naming scheme that will add the file as an option on the movie detail page?
Unfortunately that is not possible currently.
But.. the feature request i smell here would look something like this :: In Home Videos Section, Allow grouping and nesting with folders & pull metadata from a NFO file with in each directory.
I think the reality is that the vast majority of people couldn’t care less about extras so this is an extremely low priority.
I think the reality is that the vast majority of people couldn't care less about extras so this is an extremely low priority.
I think so as well. But I am one of those that love extras. Behind the scenes movies and such things are at least 5% of my movie viewing time. I long for the day when i can have a nice Plex-solution for extra material! I have full faith in that it will be supported in the future, but I want the future now dammit! ;)
I wish PMS would automatically transcode DVD/BR ISO files for SYNC and CLOUDSYNC.
