I just started using Plex yesterday and I already love it! I have few ideas and here is one (which seems pretty easy to implement).
It would be nice to be able to filter the videos by Audio and Subtitles (like there is already with genre, actor, resolution, etc)
Example: I speak English and French but my girlfriend can't watch a movie in English without the subtitles, we could filter the list of videos with French audio or English Audio with French subtitles.
In addition it would be nice to be able to activate a small sign/icon on the movie cover in the list with the quality (720p,1080p, etc), languages, subtitles, etc available for the video.
All my movies are either german, english or both (as I can understand both).
But when someone else watches with me or uses an own Plex client, he/she has no idea which audio and subtitles are available before actually starting a movie.
Since Plex obviously is not desgned to allow displaying any kind of filenames in the regular Movie sections, I had to use "Home Movies" for over a year now, but thats pretty stupid as all the nice Metainfo would readily be available.
So yes, please include some "filter by audio" and "filter by subtitle" somewhere in the client settings and show the available languages of every movie in the details when you select it.
The Server has this info most of the time, just some audio tracks and subtitles are labeled "unknown" - for those it would be great to be able to correct that on the server using "edit" for the few affected movies.
If thats too complicated, simply add a selection popup to "by folder" where the user can say "show filenames" or "show metanames", then the user can add whatever info they like to their filenames and being able to see it in Plex.
Hey, I was surprised I was the only one wishing this feature :)
I have not had a look into the Plex source code (I used to like creating plugins for XBMC I have not tried to do one for Plex, it looks like the more series I watch the less time I have to do other stuff :D) but it sounds pretty easy to me (it always seems easy when you do not have to do it yourself :D).
I guess in the query to show the movies they should also get the info of which languages/sutitles are available. The info is obviously available as you can chose when you are on the movie page but I think the issue is that the movie page "scan" the file and the folder and tells you which audio track is available and which subtitles so to have a filter it would mean scanning ALL the files and folder to know which languages are available!
Maybe as a start they could add a field in the movie database to store the available languages. for the subtitles it looks like the server is rescanning the folder everytime (so if you add subtitles they will be directly detected, I tried it!)
Or they could implement it and have the movie section 100 times slower :D
Great idea. I just created a thread for another old requested feature which would be useful for multi-lingual households which might interested you as well: multiple subtitle suport.
That is a really great idea cloom. In my case, I had to set up a collection named spanish and manually add all the movies that have a spanish track into the "spanish" collection. Non-english speaking users will need to select that collection and then they would get all the movies in spanish. It will save me a lot of effort if plex would automatically query such criteria and filter accordingly.
Anyone can share a screenshot? I have PMS 0.9.5.5 on my Synology DS412+ and I am browsing my medi via plext.tv but there is no language/audio/subtitles filter available :(
I have PMS 0.9.5.5 on my Synology DS412+ and I am browsing my medi via plext.tv but there is no language/audio/subtitles filter available :(
Am I missing something?
Nothing to share, it's been added to the API of PMS, still waiting on the various Plex clients to make use of it (that includes Plex/Web 2.0).
