The movie Clue has multiple endings, and on the DVD of clue it has the ability to randomly pick and ending so while you are watching it you don't know the ending. I am fine with plex not supporting iso (that would make UX a mess,) but in this one case we are left pulling out the DVD or hooking up a laptop via HDMI so we can have the random ending feature. It might be nice if there was a way to allow plex to handle this situation.
Based on the idea of local extras It might be a server side option to randomly que up a local extra (and pre-buffer the video) to create as seemless experance as possible.
Early 2021 clean-up:
That’s a super specific use case – it can however be handled with the standard means offered by Plex, using the handling for multi-file videos and multi-version videos. You can create a hard-link for each version for the main movie (same for all) and combine that with the respective ending using the multi-file approach.
Example:
Movies <- the folder linked to the movie library
Clue (1985)
Clue (1985) - Ending 1 Version - pt1.ext <- main video
Clue (1985) - Ending 1 Version - pt2.ext <- ending 1
Clue (1985) - Ending 2 Version - pt1.ext <- hard link to main video
Clue (1985) - Ending 2 Version - pt2.ext <- ending 2
Clue (1985) - Ending 3 Version - pt1.ext <- hard link to main video
Clue (1985) - Ending 3 Version - pt2.ext <- ending 3
Depending on your preferences you can show each version individually in your library or keep the versions merged (probably more adequate for your particular use case as it’ll keep some of the mystery)
