Add .MK3D support

Feature Suggestions
1

I know and you know MKV and MK3D is exactly the same but having 3D video files using the MK3D extension makes it much easier to manage files outside Plex so it would be just awesome to be able to add those to Plex without having to change the file extension to MKV.

It’s prolly a single line of code to have Plex recognize this extension so hopefully it will be considered.

Thanks!

2

New 1.26.1.5798 and still no .MK3D support?

3

Nothing mentioned in the release notes.
Keep in mind this is a suggestion – no committed development roadmap of Plex. As for this being a suggestion, it hasn’t gained much attention by the community (it seems only you voted for your own suggestion).

But maybe I’ve misinterpreted your post and it’s just a fancy way of saying “bump” :wink:

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Yeah forgot, is there a dev roadmap so I can see if it’s at least on the list? Again 1 line of code so we don’t have to rename all MK3D files in our collection to MKV would be great.

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Nothing public or anything I’m aware of. Plex don’t comment on their roadmap… sorry.

6

You could use a batch renamer and not have to worry about it. If you need them to be .mk3d for something else (what? Whatever it is, it’d be far easier to make a separate folder only for 3D movies but still point your movie library towards it) try this:

Don’t try this if somefilename123.mkv already exists in the same folder as somefilename123.mk3d - it won’t delete it automatically, Cannot create a file when that file already exists. but I don’t want to be responsible for that kind of accident.

  1. Open a command prompt as an administrator
  2. cd to whatever top level directory contains your .mk3d files - don’t go too far up, you’re about to batch a dir command for all subfolders beneath it. So change to your Movies folder or something.
  3. chcp 1252 just in case there are non-ASCII Unicode characters in your filenames. Something as simple as – can throw it off. No, that’s not -, it’s –. Big difference. At least to cmd.exe…
  4. FOR /F "tokens=*" %M IN ('dir /b /s *.mk3d') DO mklink /H "%~dpnM.mkv" "%M"

That will make a .mkv hardlink right next to each .mk3d file. Now Plex can see them and you’ve still got your .mk3d file for whatever it is that needs the extension…

They don’t take up any extra space, and they’re like shortcuts, but Plex thinks they’re actual files. You can delete one without automatically deleting the other. Deleting both will obviously result in the file being deleted. They can be plenty useful for other Plex related things.