@presto709 said:
I have given up on this too. After reading this entire thread I still don’t know what I should even expect if I get this working.
I can’t say for Roku since I don’t own one but there are guides for several clients in the knowledge base.
I think the Roku looks a bit like Plex Media Player
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/207338738-Item-Preplay-Screen
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/203661903-Using-Trailers-Android
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/202934933-Cinema-Trailers-Extras-Plex-Web-App
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/202934863-Cinema-Trailers-Extras-Plex-Home-Theater
finicky it is not. It can be complex, since it not only fetches trailers from an online video archive but also from your movie folder (should you decide to rip the extras from your DVD and BluRays and place them there too)
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/202934883-Cinema-Trailers-Extras
The method for including extras is about 1000 times more complicated than it should be…
Plex should abandon this CATEGORIZED FOLDERS and categorized naming conventions and simply add anything found in an extras folder listed by filename. Then the user can simply add extras as they find them and no need to find a category for it to FIT INTO…
There really is no need to over complicate this since if people really wanted these contents organized by renaming them they could pick any naming convention they wanted as long as it appears in the Extras folder.
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@MovieFan.Plex said:
@AsphyxNYC said:
The method for including extras is about 1000 times more complicated than it should be…
Plex should abandon this CATEGORIZED FOLDERS and categorized naming conventions and simply add anything found in an extras folder listed by filename. Then the user can simply add extras as they find them and no need to find a category for it to FIT INTO…
There really is no need to over complicate this since if people really wanted these contents organized by renaming them they could pick any naming convention they wanted as long as it appears in the Extras folder.
I agree, but people like to categorize stuff. I personally just name everything -scene so I don’t have to deal with that. All my extras show up just fine.
And I’m fine with that…
Some people do want to organize things…But the point is they could easily organize them on their own via naming conventions instead of having Plex force them to pigeonhole content into hard set categories.
I would have zero Issue if Plex would see an Extras folder and simply list every content item in it…
I wouldn’t mind if it allowed (and used) folder names (inside the Extras folder) to categorize even further.
But the fact the content won’t show up UNLESS categorized and named correctly seems a bit over engineered as we say in the Broadcast industry. The KISS principle! LOL
It would be one thing if there was a scraper to have to match but that isn’t the case for these items.
My Library (16TBs) is used by more than just Plex as I also have Kodi boxes running.
And with Kodi the method used by Plex would not work with the video extras system Kodi uses.
Is there a way to have extras show up in a particular order?
Which extras are you referring to?
Those supplied by your Plex Pass or those you added yourself?
For your own trailers, the following applies:
The -trailer type shows up first.
The other types I think show up in alphabetical order of their category name. e.g. -behindthescenes first, then -deleted then -featurette and so on.
I don’t know if the automatically supplied extras follow a similar ordering scheme.
Whether ‘Local Media Assets’ is above ‘Plex Movie’ or below,
determines whether your own extras appear before the automatically supplied extras or after them.
(Settings - Server - Agents - Movies - Plex Movie)
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