Fitness videos: Resume "short" not possible?

General Discussions
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I have fitness videos with multiple parts that I put in an “Other Videos” library organized by a main video with the other parts as “shorts” so they are all presented in the same “title”. The problem is there seems to be no way to resume the shorts at least in the Web and Android TV clients. Is resume supposed to be supported for these “extras”? If not, this seemed to be the best way to organize my Fitness videos but I am open to suggestions. Thanks.

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The playback progress for extras are not tracked by Plex, so it’s not possible to resume.

I would suggest organizing your workout videos as home series videos. It’s like setting up TV shows. For example, I have the P90X series. The show is called P90X, the original P90X is season 1, P90X+ is season 2, etc. and each individual workout is an episode. I also like it this way so if you don’t have a preference for the workout, you can hit shuffle and get a random video.

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Thanks for the help. So, I made a new library of type “TV Shows” with the “Personal Media Shows” agent. Here is the content of one of my folders:

30 Day Shred-S01E01-Level 1.mkv
30 Day Shred-S01E02-Level 2.mkv
30 Day Shred-S01E03-Level 3.mkv
folder.jpg
poster.jpg

The problem is that the poster does not appear for the title/show and the videos are named “Episode 1”, etc. instead of picking up the names in the file names? Do I have to set all this manually?

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Are these in a folder as well.

TV Shows

  • 30 Day Shred
    – Season 1
    — 30 Day Shred-S01E01-Level 1.mkv

Unfortunately, PMS will not use filenames. You are using mkv files and PMS cannot read the embedded data in an mkv either, so you will need to manually edit the episode titles. If you used MP4 files (which is what I use), you can embed the title into the file property and PMS will pick that up.

It will take some work to get this all set up, but the results (at least to me) are very nice and well organized.

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Thanks. Actually, the "“By Folder” view of Other Videos (without TV renaming) is almost perfect for me except there are currently no posters shown for folders.