Well I could well same to you and would be more apt. The fact you are exactly what you say about me, and won’t listen to common sense speaks volumes. All I want it the option to turn it off, or for it to be something you can’t do - its really quite simple.
I can only assume your all children who have never owned a car - land - property and don’t realise you can’t do what you want all the time with something you think you own. The world does not work like that and never will.
Checks and balances need to be in place to stop abuse. And you seem like someone that would abuse it with your higher than mighty - I AM GOD attitude.
I don’t see any legitimate reason for a pre-roll for what Plex is intended to be used for. You are not supposed to be offering any service for what there needs to be any communication - you are (or should be) simply sharing a library - end of…
Don’t bother replying because you will continue to argue about this even under your gravestone!. I reply to idiots like you, to get my point across to the developers, whom might just be reading it. Get it ??
I mean, if all he’s saying is he doesn’t want a way to permanently force it to all, then fine. I can see that. All I want is the darn thing to be enabled by default so I don’t have to try and explain to everyone how to turn it on. ha They can still go into settings and turn it off if they REALLY don’t want it. But, like I said, all of my clients would love it. Guess I’m just not seeing the reason for so much hate from everyone.
Your missing the point - it was never about the idea of a pre-roll. It was always about not having the ability for clients to turn it off. The majority of users wanted just that, and thats why I am opposed to it. The implementation thus far (unless it has changed) is that if you enable trailers, you get pre-roll (at least on some clients) and the ONLY way to stop it is to skip forward [AFTER] they start to play.
If you know the people you share with [which you do right?] then it should be no problem helping them set this up.
He guess what, I WANT FORCED PRE ROLLS. If you don’t like it, don’t use my server. Pretty simple. Put your own server together, stream you own content to your hearts desire with no pre rolls. No on is forcing anyone to watch pre rolls but yourself. Again, if you dont like it, dont watch someone elses server. Build your own and quit complaining.
The big problem is that this throws the door wide open for server owners forcing unskippable commercials on their users.
I think the current setting is a good balance offering the most freedom and choice: servers are free to offer prerolls or not, whatever their reasons, and clients are free to say yes or no, whatever their reasons.
But if you really want to force a preroll, you can simply concatenate the preroll to all your movie files, it’s a simple one-time batch process with ffmpeg.
So what? It’s MY hardware, MY media that I’M sharing. People who have the luxury of using MY server for FREE, should not have a choice if the admin doesn’t want them to. I own all the equipment and foot the bill to run the server. This isn’t Burger King, have it your way. You don’t get to tell me what to do with my equipment. I don’t care what my users think. The use of MY server is a luxury. If they don’t like forced pre rolls or trailers, they are free to build their own server. Users are not entitled to the use of MY server and MY media. Whoever is complaining about being forced to watch pre rolls needs to get bent and go host their own server.
If you have that attitude and are not just trolling (sorry, can’t truly tell here), why complain about Plex then? By that exact same rationale, it’s their software, and you have absolutely no right to question their choices.
Not really trolling, just reacting to some of the comments here. Point is, people are SHARING their media through owned servers. Clients have no right to complain about what people do with their own equipment. They are not forced to watch pre rolls, they can simply, not use someones server or host their own. End of story.
I agree, but what I’m proposing is not something that is a true force. I just want the default to be on… Client can still opt out if they don’t want to see it.
If you’ve read any of my responses, you would have read that what I want to use it for is good. Not some “Hey watch my dog run around in a circle before your movie.” crap or whatever.
It is what it is though, they don’t want it default on, guess it won’t be.
While this is not nearly as grandiose as most examples: Throughout history there have been many many examples of something intended for “good” being cooped and/or corrupted and used for evil or at least non-intended less than good purposes.
I agree that used as many want this is not bad and perhaps even good thing but it opens doors that are, I believe, best left closed.
There is value for this idea but there are too many chances for making that one additional step to make the value less decrease to zero.
Plex cannot really control how their software is used but they really should not open a door like this that once opened cannot be closed. The possibilities of misuse are just too great.
Can’t this feature request be closed now? Not sure when it happened but the feature appears to have been added in settings under Extras > Movie pre-roll video. The video(s) specified here seem to play before all movies, even if trailers aren’t enabled in the client.
…Unless I’m missing something (which is pretty likely)
I assume because Plex wants to maximize the freedom of servers (who have the option to serve prerolls) and the freedom of clients (who have the option not to play them). To be honest, I think the current situation is the best balance between the two.
This is allI want too. But he still doesn’t think you should be able to do that either. If you are hosting the server and spending the time and effort to make sure it stays up and running for the user, you should be able to show them a pre-roll. If they don’t want to see it then they can opt-out.
