I am new to Plex and trying to get my head around it and like it very much. I have the music and TV shows sorted and working well from my ASUSTOR Nas to my PC and Samsung smart TV. I have worked out how to autoplay multi disc movies.
There is just one more thing to put the icing on the cake, how do you get the icons / thumbnails to show for movies just like they do for TV shows, so I just click/open the thumbnail to play the extras (do I need to get a PlexPass?)?
For TV shows you click on the thumbnail then can navigate to the episode - Great - I would like to do that for movies. Despite my reading and searching I cannot see how to do that.
I do have the movies in the movies folder and TV show in the TV shows folder etc…
Thanks JuiceWSA Looks like it is a naming issue - see the screen dump. While I have read the naming and tried it, it still did not work (and not quite having a full understanding did not help). Thanks for the example. I will re-read try naming again. And again while I do not quite understand ‘Agents’ I have worked out the posters etc.
Next Question. I rip to MKV and get a global name for the file (see attached image). How do you know what each ‘extra’ is to name - Will I have to name each file? I am happy just to have the generic name - For a test I just named them ‘extra 1,…2 … 3’
etc…
You want to give the extra a fairly descriptive name (be creative) because that’s the name you’re going to see. You can bounce back and forth between my file names and the UI image to see how it works. Those tags (-featurette, -trailer, -behindthescenes, ect) butt right up at the end of the file name right before the extension.
Extras go in a folder with the Movie and the folder has to be named exactly like the Movie and both need to be compliant. Looks like you understand that part.
I’ll assume ‘t01’ and ‘t02’ are your extras so:
A Movie Library/
…Ghost (2001)/
…Ghost (2001).mkv
…Ghost Trailer-trailer.mkv
…The Making of Ghost-featurette.mkv
(wild guess - looks about right)
would be the proper names and structure.
Here’s an important piece of information not in the documentation:
If you have two versions of the same movie, like a version optimized for remote use, or an extended version or something, DO NOT put both of those versions in the folder with the extras. Place a single Movie version in the folder with the extras FIRST. Then, and only then, place the second version outside the folder either in the library with all the other movies, or in a folder by itself. Plex will then ‘Merge’ them into one item and you can either select the version to play at playback time or you can ‘Split’ them into two separate movies - giving each a a unique poster if you want to.
Eureka I have got it! I added ‘-featurette’ to the file name without spaces in the name - I thought I had done that before (and refreshed the title). Do spaces in between the hyphen make a difference?
I have no idea what is the title of each extra so am happy for the time being - I may look at the DVD cover at a later date and update in the fullness of time
Extras go in a folder with the Movie and the folder has to be named exactly like the Movie and both need to be compliant. Looks like you understand that part.
Yep - Got that
I’ll assume ‘t01’ and ‘t02’ are your extras so:
Yep - That is the case.
A Movie Library/
…Ghost (2001)/
…Ghost (2001).mkv
…Ghost Trailer-trailer.mkv
…The Making of Ghost-featurette.mkv
(wild guess - looks about right)
Except I have no idea what the title of the extras are/should be without laboriously going through the movie and finding what is the name. As I said I am content just to see the item available.
would be the proper names and structure.
Here’s an important piece of information not in the documentation:
If you have two versions of the same movie, like a version optimized for remote use, or an extended version or something, DO NOT put both of those versions in the folder with the extras. Place a single Movie version in the folder with the extras FIRST. Then, and only then, place the second version outside the folder either in the library with all the other movies, or in a folder by itself. Plex will then ‘Merge’ them into one item and you can either select the version to play at playback time or you can ‘Split’ them into two separate movies - giving each a a unique poster if you want to.
I do have several versions of the same move I have ripped to separate folders. I did read that you can have the several versions under the one folder - will look at that.
So if I am reading correctly You have one title in the folder with all the files. Then create another sub-folder in that main title and put the second version in there - and so on. I have about 4 versions of Titanic (standard, Blu-Ray, special edition etc.)
I can see that I can ‘merge’ titles - is that different to stacking the folders? What is the purpose of merging?
You’ll get the hang of it.
In the fullness of time lol - I have been at it only about a week and a half…
A Movie Library/
…Ghost (2001)/ <—Place the Folder and all the extras First
…Ghost (2001).mkv
…Ghost Trailer-trailer.mkv
…The Making of Ghost-featurette.mkv
…Ghost (2001) [Extended Cut].mkv <— throw this into the main movie library second - or you can put it in it’s own folder.
Anything extra, that makes the file name non-compliant, put in [Brackets] - Plex will ignore everything in a [Bracket].
A Compliant Movie File Name is: ‘Movie Name (YEAR).xxx’ - that’s it. Anything else is non-compliant.
Do NOT place another folder inside the Ghost (2001) folder.
No space between the filename and the ‘-tag’.
No space between the dash and the tagname
