It’s a weird question I guess, but sometimes I will either want to edit or add content to the summary box. Often I want to do this as a list format but that only appears double spaced causing most of the comment to appear inside the “read more” option. It would seem like an easy enough fix but I can’t get it to work how I want. Ideas?
give an example… I have no idea what you’re looking for.
In a longer home video, it might be something like:
- Dinner rehearsal (3:00)
- Arrivals at wedding/guests (10:00)
- Ceremony & vows (15:00)
- Father & daughter dance (30:00)
- Newlyweds leave (45:00)
Or scenes I want to notate in classic movie or TV show. The above list would appear double-spaced between the items, so only the first two are visible. I’m just wondering if there’s a trick to have it appear single-spaced so it appears together without being strung together as a continuous sentence:
- Dinner rehearsal (3:00); 2. Arrivals at wedding/guests (10:00); 3. Ceremony & vows (15:00); 4. Father & daughter dance; (30:00); 5. Newlyweds leave (45:00)
just edit the file with a common editor and apply those as chapters.
no need to put this into the description field.
after applying those chapters to your home video, you might need to analyze the file or to re-scan the library to see the chapters in Plex.
If you let me know what OS you use and what file format those videos are, I can point you to an app which can do that.
Windows 10 Home. File types vary, but mostly mp4. Some are AVI, movie clip, WMV, etc.
If there would be a way to create chapters, that would be amazing. One of the few things I’ve disliked about transitioning my media to streaming is the loss of chapters and easy rewind/fast-forward.
hmm… YAMB might work for you and should be able to deal with the MP4 and AVI files.
https://www.videohelp.com/software/YAMB
WMV is more tricky…
I used to use this app but it appears it is no longer free: http://danhinsley.com/metax/metax.html
I don’t have a Windows system at hand, so I cannot check if the free test version is up to the job.
Thanks, Tom. I’ll give it a go. 
@dabster32714 said:
- One of the few things I’ve disliked about transitioning my media to streaming is the loss of chapters and easy rewind/fast-forward.
Why are you loosing chapters?
MKVToolNix can help with MKV files. You can use the Chapter Editor to add/delete/modify chapters.
@NewPlaza said:
@dabster32714 said:
- One of the few things I’ve disliked about transitioning my media to streaming is the loss of chapters and easy rewind/fast-forward.
Why are you loosing chapters?
I wasn’t aware they were an option. They don’t load up this way. Was there an update I missed?
no… files could always have had their chapters. they’re just represented differently in different clients/players.
Another thing is if your encoder does not copy the chapters over to your newly created “smaller” file then use MKVToolNix to copy them over.
