# Force Pre-Roll Vdeos on remote users!

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Tags:** playback, granting-access
**Created:** [January 28, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177 "2016-01-28T03:33:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![quhectic24](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/quhectic24/32/12968_2.png) [@quhectic24](https://forums.plex.tv/u/quhectic24)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/1 "2016-01-28T03:33:53Z")

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I would love to be able to force pre-roll videos on my remote users. I would like to see pre-rolls be completely separated from the trailers feature. No one knows about it to actually go into the settings on their device and enable the feature themselves. It should be the PMS host’s option. Who’s with me on this?

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### Author: ![Elijah\_Baley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elijah_baley/32/10336_2.png) [@Elijah\_Baley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Elijah_Baley)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/2 "2016-01-28T07:42:35Z")

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NO, NO 1000 times NO!!!

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### Author: ![MWThrane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@MWThrane](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MWThrane)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/3 "2016-01-28T12:11:45Z")

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What in world does it matter to you that a user is forced to see some bullshit before a video starts?

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### Author: ![disone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/disone/32/4150_2.png) [@disone](https://forums.plex.tv/u/disone)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/4 "2016-01-28T13:59:42Z")

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You wouldn’t steal a car…

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### Author: ![TimeTempest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/timetempest/32/16223_2.png) [@TimeTempest](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TimeTempest)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/5 "2016-04-07T12:55:57Z")

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I like making my own cinematics, I don’t care if they see trailers, but I do want them to see the cinematic before the movie

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### Author: ![PLEXONIAN](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/plexonian/32/5146_2.png) [@PLEXONIAN](https://forums.plex.tv/u/PLEXONIAN)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/6 "2017-03-06T18:42:36Z")

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Any traction on this?

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### Author: ![MikeG6.5](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mikeg6.5/32/10150_2.png) [@MikeG6.5](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MikeG6.5)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/7 "2017-03-07T17:26:52Z")

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Why do people insist that polls help them get their idea across? They DON’T… Seldom do people provide enough choices in a poll to reflect the way other users want to see something. Polls should be restricted to the people that can use the data from them. Developers or marketing from Plex. I would venture a guess that most Plex Team members don’t even look at poll results made by users… Users making polls are efforts of futility,

You want a feature that’s not in Plex yet? Fine… Make a Feature Request as everyone else has done before you. Wait for others to vote that request up, and when it gets enough traction it becomes a newly added Feature. Making a poll, as a user, is wasted efforts. No one looks at it but other users. It definitely doesn’t impact how soon the things covered in the poll become live.

As far as the idea here goes? Could care less one way or the other. I don’t have pre-rolls, doubt I will ever make one, and think the whole idea is pretty silly, actually.

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### Author: ![PLEXONIAN](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/plexonian/32/5146_2.png) [@PLEXONIAN](https://forums.plex.tv/u/PLEXONIAN)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/8 "2017-03-28T19:17:01Z")

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Bump. This seems like an easy implementation… Guessing that means that a year later it won’t happen??

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### Author: ![CooLajz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/coolajz/32/101210_2.png) [@CooLajz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CooLajz)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/9 "2017-10-31T15:17:27Z")

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Yep. Pre-roll video is diferent from trailer. It will be nice if server admin can force preroll video for specific users, for specific library or for whole server.

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### Author: ![AmazingRando24](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/amazingrando24/32/351517_2.png) [@AmazingRando24](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AmazingRando24)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/10 "2017-10-31T15:25:42Z")

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I actually find it odd that you can’t force it. I thought that was the idea?

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### Author: ![FarishBlades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@FarishBlades](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FarishBlades)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/11 "2017-11-01T11:33:57Z")

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At least have an option for the admin to choose if he wants to force a pre-roll or not. It depends on his situation, really.

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### Author: ![geek2009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@geek2009](https://forums.plex.tv/u/geek2009)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/12 "2017-12-03T01:31:28Z")

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Easy yes for me.

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### Author: ![Can0nTV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Can0nTV](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Can0nTV)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/13 "2018-08-13T15:46:45Z")

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any world that you are getting access to free content on. I have a 4 second clip I want to force on all movie playbacks without an actual trailer playing. its a short clip with my server name in a netflix like intro

as the server owner I see no issues with forcing this clip on my users, if my users dont like it then watch TV where i wont force it and if that doesnt work for them there is legit paid streaming services. that still have access to your data and spam you you can use.

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### Author: ![Can0nTV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Can0nTV](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Can0nTV)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/14 "2018-08-14T18:31:58Z")

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Yeah Yeah Yeah 1,000,000,000,000 times yeah

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### Author: ![Can0nTV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Can0nTV](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Can0nTV)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/15 "2018-08-14T18:33:57Z")

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I have tested with a family members account via web that my preroll plays before a movie without a trailer playing. its only client specific that you can opt out for now.

AppleTV and Xbox One I had to turn on trailers to get clip to play and was forced to watch a movie trailer on each platform first before my preroll would play. I still have PS4 and Roku and Chromecast to check

\*\*\*update roku has a setting to show pre-rolls only in the trailers section, wish AppleTV and Xbox has those options…

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### Author: ![boosmyller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/boosmyller/32/102482_2.png) [@boosmyller](https://forums.plex.tv/u/boosmyller)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/16 "2019-01-23T08:18:15Z")

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I’d like to see this. Partly because I think it’d be fun to shoot and cut my own vanity card. And also to send messages to anyone using my server.

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### Author: ![Jake6956](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/jake6956/32/11902_2.png) [@Jake6956](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jake6956)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/17 "2019-01-30T02:43:08Z")

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I’d like to see this implemented separately from trailers. If I want to preroll something before a movie hosted on my gear, I should be able to.

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### Author: ![UmpaNET\_Plex\_Server](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/umpanet_plex_server/32/125985_2.png) [@UmpaNET\_Plex\_Server](https://forums.plex.tv/u/UmpaNET_Plex_Server)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 10:05am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/18 "2019-03-28T10:05:44Z")

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Implement it separately sure - force it NONONONONONONONONONO!!!

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### Author: ![Mini\_Server\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@Mini\_Server\_1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Mini_Server_1)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/20 "2019-04-01T19:36:00Z")

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this is the worst idea… sorry but not sorry it had to be said

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### Author: ![Can0nTV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Can0nTV](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Can0nTV)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-pre-roll-vdeos-on-remote-users/133177/21 "2019-04-02T00:39:59Z")

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why because you dont want to use it? I am asking for an option to force it or not. I want to and many of my friends and family love the clip lol so some have asked how to enable it

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