I created a library called trailers, put my trailers in there…
I created a library called movies, put my movies in there…
settings > server > extras > include cinema trailers from my library (spoiler alert, it only pulls from the same library…)
Apparently plex is unable to include trailers from library A and play them before movies in library B. Plex is pretty great, but how can something this simple/expected not work? Is there a workaround for this?
I would just go with plex pass and use the “automatic” cinema trailers feature if it didn’t constantly pull complete nonsense I would never watch, like “Beauty and the Beast” and “I am not your Negro”. Literally nothing in my library to warrant matches like that…
I just want to put some trailers in a trailers library, and call them up before movies in a movies library. Impossible? Possible? Another way to do this?
I don’t use this method myself. I use the ‘Inline’ method with the ‘-tag’ and place the extras inside a folder with the Movie, but 'the ‘Subdirectories’ method requires that the ‘Trailers’ subdirectory is placed inside the Movie’s directory (not in a library of it’s own):
Note: The Movie Folder must be named like the Movie and both must be Plex Compliant.
/Movies
/Avatar (2009)
Avatar (2009).mkv
/Behind The Scenes
Performance Capture.mkv
/Deleted Scenes
Bar Fight.mp4
Lost Sister.mkv
/Interviews
Sigourney Weaver.mp4
Stephen Lang.mp4
/Scenes
Arrival.mp4
/Trailers
Teaser Trailer.mp4
Theatrical Trailer #1.mp4
Theatrical Trailer #2.mp4
Ugh… that’s frustrating… yeah I know how to setup a trailer for existing media, and I understand that’s how the plex team set this up, the problem is nobody wants to see a bunch of old/dated movie trailers as coming soon attractions. There needs to be a simple option to choose which library these cinema trailers load from, maybe as simple as changing the dropdown for this setting to show a list of libraries instead of just all or unwatched…
Well, you are welcome to wish/want it to happen in a way that pleases you - or you can set it up the way it works. If you set up your ‘local trailers’ so they’ll work, when you activate the ‘Trailer Feature’ in the server settings (that plays random trailers before a movie) they’ll be randomly drawn from your working trailers.
You can also - as a Plex Passer - set automatic trailers and suffer through repetitive 240p trailers drawn from gawd-knows-where. I don’t watch a lot of trailers, but I do enjoy Extras (good luck getting those automatically) and they get the same level of care my regular material receives and are high quality additions to my library. You would probably want to do the same.
The way I describe above - and covered in the documentation provided - explain how it works.
You are free to do whatever you want.
Yeah I hear ya, I appreciate the help, just fishing for some workarounds if there are any, doesn’t look like there are
And yeah where on earth does plex pull it’s trailers from is a better question? It’s like they’re grabbing that stuff from a review site somewhere in india. My experience you would get 1, if that… sort of new movie trailer. Everything else is either a student project, film festival trailer or foreign film I have no interest in. Oh well…
I use the -trailer option as well, and as trailers are considered “extras” I’m surprised that this works for the free version. I thought this was part of the Pass feature set.
I keep trailers for each of the movies I have in my library, where I can find them, with the media itself. And I only allow the trailers FROM my library to be played. No sense in someone watching a trailer for something I don’t have on Plex. If I DID allow outside trailers I would get lots of requests for media I don’t have now, or get the same 3 or 4 trailers showing all the time.
Local Trailers and Local Extras work for Non-Plex-Passers. Always have. I can’t imagine automatic trailers at awful quality to be something I’d want to pay for to be honest.
If the Disc I’m ripping has a trailer or extras I get 'em, but I always stick the trailer in with other movies. I don’t need to see a trailer of the movie I’m about to watch, but that’s a personal decision I make. I like making my own decisions when it comes to my media.
@riptor7364: i would really wanted to see this happen. i also created a separate library for trailers. One that I can fill on my own - I even rename those trailers to the plex format (adding “-trailer” at the end). so plex recognizes it as trailers - instead of movies or video clips on its own.
the problem: as you already mentioned - it seems trailers and movies need to be on the same library. actually I think trailers need to be in the same directory as the movie it is screening. which is a obviously a problem due to the time difference between releasing a trailer and releasing a movie… Also, if I add the movie at some point later, I would need to search through my predownloaded trailers and check if I have one for this new movie. A task that I would rather see been doing by my media server.
I also read about creating fake movie entries around those trailers - which is … well … kind of slap in the face for my, otherwise pretty well organized, movie collection
I found this post: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/134773/how-to-store-multiple-movie-trailers promissing - but I couldn’t create a working solution out of it, yet.
What i am still waiting for - and please don’t see this as demand or critic about plex, but a wish - Plex could use the same filename-to-movie matching algorithm for trailers and show the trailers regardless of their place on the filesystem along with movies as extras - or as it’s already described in the linked post, it would also be fine to selected library to play trailers/extras from. that way I would be able to play the newest trailers right of my dashboard - something i have to switch to youtube at the moment.
I am aware of the plex pass solution to trailers, which I discarded after I have seen it in action due to the in my opinion poor movie selection as already mentioned.
