I would like to request a feature to incorporate trailers for TV Series the same way trailers are added for movies.
In addition to this, adding "Next Week" previews for individual TV Episodes would also be nice.
This info currently exists on youtube, so is it possible to implement and worth it to the user?
It would be great !
Is it possible to manualy add trailers in the TV show library ? I don’t find that…
At this moment in time, I don’t believe so. Only Movies and Music currently have that ability but I could be wrong. I’d recommend asking the Devs.
No, you cannot add trailers to TV shows. I like the idea of “coming next week” but not all videos on YouTube are legal, so unless there is a service like Vivo that can provide that legitimately, probably not going to see that happen.
@MovieFan.Plex do you know where Plex is pulling the movie trailers from?
Internet Video Archives (IVA).
TV Series Trailers/interviews - Hint: The only way I have found to handle keeping series interviews, making of, etc, is to put them in the ‘specials’. Basically put in ‘Season 0’ folder, or I just put them in “series-name.S00E01.title-of-item.m4v” and I put each as a separate ‘episode’ in season zero. … Hope this helps someone else, since the -interview and -trailer tags only work on movies.
@servant74 I’m not looking for a way to do this manually as much as I’m looking for a feature to have it be pulled automatically. Plus, this feature is specifically for TV Series Trailers to give someone a visual idea about the show they may be interested in and “Next Week On” previews so the you or a friend can see next weeks preview.
@MovieFan.Plex I attempted to check out IVA but it’s obviously not a site for the public. I guess they do not carry these types of trailers for TV Series and individual shows?
IVA is a commercial site and you can’t browse around their database. Extras for TV shows is a feature request and been discussed before. Finding trailers for TV shows is probably possible, I’m sure there is someone gathering this. This new idea of “Coming up next week” is the wrinkle. To have this available for each episode would require a lot of active work by that source to make sure it is obtained in time. I just have not seen or heard of any place gathering this.
Edit - Don’t get me wrong. I like the idea, just not sure how realistic it is to make this possible,
Has there been movement on this?
I don’t need you to worry about a “legal source” for these videos. I just need a filename convention that will let me add those manually and have Plex make sense of them.
It would be nice if, for instance, season 1 trailers of unwatched shows were played before episodes, or for people who have watched later seasons that the coming season trailers would play. They wouldn’t necessarily have to match the tv show currently playing (probably shouldn’t).
You can rest assured that I am pulling these off the bluray extras that I have legally purchased, and I’m only ripping them to exercise my legal rights of fair use.
Yeah, that would be great. To have the extras for the series as well as for the movies.
For every season. Because some series also have special “making ofs” etc.
2021 clean-up: implemented (local extras can be added to tv-shows, seasons and episodes – this includes trailers)
