Feature/Option to Allow selection of “Landscape” Posters as well as “Portrait” for “Other Videos” Folder in Advanced section
Plex, Why isn’t this feature available? One should be able to choose between “Landscape” and “Portrait”. or be able to select a Default weather the posters should landscape or portrait.
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tom80H
April 28, 2021, 4:28pm
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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate
Currently, Grid View in personal libraries pulls a “poster” or “portrait” frame from the video as it is scanned and uses it as the artwork for that video. This vertically heavy view looks very unnatural and silly for video files that do not have any art associated with them.
I’d like to request a feature that splits Grid View into both “Grid View (Poster)” and “Grid View (Frame)”.
Grid View (Poster): The current default Grid View where each video’s listing has a vertical portrait-sized poste…
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…
