Plex treats all fan edits as the same video
I searched the forums & haven't seen anyone else talking about this. I have noticed that Plex treats fan edits as the same movie. For instance, I watched half of Harmy's Star Wars DeSpecialized Edition HD last night & 'On Deck' now shows that video, The War of the Stars, Star Wars IV Revisited, Deleted Magic, & the plain ol' Star Wars Episode IV even though I only watched one of the videos. Does anyone have any pointers on how to best deal with these? FYI, I edited the metadata to match each version of the film & each has its own poster. Thanks in advance.
They way that I am managing Fan Edits is by utilizing Plex’s feature of “Extras” for Movies - outlined here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220677-Local-Media-Assets-Movies - you want to scroll down to the “Local Trailers and Extras” section. I’ve been putting fan edits as Featurettes for the original movie. So in the case of Harmy’s Despecialized Editions, I have each movie with its respective 2011 Blu-Ray release as the master index movie.
There are, however, a few downsides with this approach.
- Currently, Plex doesn’t allow you to add poster images, descriptions, etc to these features, thus losing and plot/edit notes from the editor on the fan edit, which I personally think is a nice thing to have.
- Fan edits that span multiple movies, you have you make a decision on which movie you want to make the “master.” Such as, Derelict or Man of Tomorrow, which bring multiple movies of a franchise into a build a better narrative.
Have you seen the IFDB scraper? I wonder if using this would help keep things separate. Of course, plug-in support is going away, so may not be useful for long.
https://www.fanedit.org/how-to-add-fanedit-metadata-to-your-plex-media-server/
Edit: Sorry for necroposting, but this post came up as one of the top results in Google
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