I have The LOTR The Return of the King regular and extended version with the extras from the DVDs in one folder. It is two movie files and 26 extra files. When I click the movie icon in the Web player, it doesn’t display the extras. The movie, cast, albums, two tracks from the albums, and related movies are shown. I’ve checked the naming format, and it looks like my other movies that have no problems displaying the extras. The only thing I can of is that there may be too many extras for Plex to handle. Does anyone know if there is a limit for the extras? If so, is there a way to get around the problem? Thanks in advance.
the extras have -featurette -deleted -trailer etc at the end of them?
ie. Making of-featurette.mkv and Trailer 1-trailer.mkv etc etc?
Also, I think it’s case sensitive (I had capital F’s on featurette and they didn’t show till I lower cased them). If all of that is true, then I am not sure my friend. Gonna have to wait for someone to come along with a little more experience
As far as I know there’s no limit. I have 25 extras on one movie, so I can’t say about more than yours.
Jason’s suggestion is pretty much where I was going to go. Also make sure there’s no space following the hyphen (-featurette not - featurette).
There’s been a few times that Plex has identified the extras for a movie as movie itself. It doesn’t happen often, so I can’t say what the problem is. If I remember correctly, it happens more often if the extras are added after the fact (but not always)
A “Refresh Metadata” seems to fix it, and if all else fails, the Plex Dance should work.
I think I have all of the names correct. The only one that concerns me is Middle-earth. I wonder if the dash without spaces on each side is causing some confusion. I’ve a screenshot of the files on my NAS.
yeah, those all look correct. I’m not sure why they’re not working. beckfield has something with 25 extras working… Try taking one out and see if the rest load?
I would try renaming the middle-earth files to “Cameras in Middle Earth-featurette.mkv” to eliminate the possibility of the extra dash playing havoc.
I usually use the sub-folder method for extras, where the extras are placed in folders named Trailers, Featurettes, etc. I don’t have any movies with that many extras, so I’m not sure about a limit.
Remove one of the main movie versions. Or rename one of them to be an extra.
Absolutely this.
If you make one of those movies an extra it won’t enjoy:
VPTs
Watched Status
or anything else Extras don’t need that Movies do.
You can’t put two versions in the same folder as the Extras.
The approved and tested method is to add the movie in the folder with the extras first. Then add ‘Versions’ outside that folder, in their own unique folder.
Merge or Split as required after that.
If you think you may have confused the order of things - it’s easy enough to Plex Dance the whole mess and try again.
When going for the Plex Dance Do-Over - anything having to do with this movie must be removed - Versions, Extras, the works. Scan, Empty Trash and Clean Bundles at that point will wipe out everything associated with this movie - except it’s watched status, if you can believe it (it’s unbelievable, but believe it anyway).
Thanks for everyone’s help. I decided to try a couple of the suggestions.
I tried renaming Middle-earth to Middle Earth and that didn’t work.
I renamed the extended version to have -other at the end of the filename, and that worked.
When I started to work on this movie I did something similar to @JuiceWSA’s suggestion. I had the regular version and all of its extras in one folder and the extended version and all of its extras in another folder. When I did that, Plex didn’t display the extras from the extended version, but did display the movie as stacked.
I plan to put the regular version and all extras in one folder and the extended version in its own folder.
Thanks again for everyone’e help.
if you want to keep the regular/extended separate folders, you can ‘split’ the stack and plex will display separate entries for the movie, then you can edit the title to indicate extended or whatever.
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