Change Orientation of Movie Posters

[david.weinberg]

I have a few movie folders. All are commercial productions where the posters are vertically oriented:

I have one folder that is identified as “videos” and the poster are horizontally oriented:

I presume that the horizontal orientation is due to the “video” label. If so, is there a way that I can rotate an image so the complete poster for the first video can be viewed in its entirety?

[tom80H]

You currently cannot do that. There’s a feature suggestion asking for an option to configure the poster aspect ratio per library… in case you want to vote for that

[Feature Request] Change aspect ratio of posters

At present, Plex determines what aspect ratio the posters for a particular thing should be based on what type of library it is. This works great most of the time; music album art tends to be 1:1, movie posters tend to be 2:3, etc. But sometimes it’s kind of obnoxious. For example, posters in Home Videos libraries use the same 2:3 aspect ratio that is normally used for movie posters. Home videos generally don’t have posters, so you end up with obnoxiously-cropped screenshots of the video, like th…

[david.weinberg]

Bummer. Done.

Thanks.