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Hi there. I’ve begun ripping 4K UHD variants of movies and am wondering the best to handle the file structure. I had planned on making a new section (folder) for just the UHD files, but I’m not sure if Plex will still try to merge those or leave them split. Speaking of merge/split, is it even necessary to put them in a different folder?
IMO, the best way to handle it is to keep them in a separate 4k movie branch and plex library.
/data/movies-4k/moviename (year)/moviename (year) UHD.mkv
or something like that.
add a new plex movie library with that movie path > /data/movies-4k
disable any remote/non-4k users from that 4k library (to avoid any unnecessary transcoding).
you can attempt to put 4k files in the same library and folder as another resolution, plex is supposed to intelligently pick the most compatible file (this may be client specific).
you won’t be able to stop someone from manually choosing the 4k file inappropriately, if they are stored together and not kept in a restricted library.
you do not need to put them in the same folder. if they are in separate folder but in the same library, plex will ‘stack’ them the same as if they were in the same folder.
to keep them separate, there must be separate libraries, or you must manually ‘split’ each movie.
in summary, you can have any combination of separate/same folders and separate/same libraries, it all depends on what you want to accomplish and how much effort you want to go through.
I keep my 4k separate, simply for the ability to restrict remote users.
Exactly what @teknojunky said: keep your 4k content entirely separate from everything else in a different folder structure and library. Makes life much easier trying to decide what library to look at on each client.
Thanks all. That’s exactly what I was thinking of doing.
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