Although I need all the metadata about the movie, how do I lock down my own covers? It’s the only thing I can’t seem to force Plex from changing. Is there a way to make it leave my movie covers alone and not replace them. I put a cover in each folder with the name exactly the same as the movie and containing folder.
Alien (1979) : folder
Alien (1979) : movie
Alien (1979) : cover
Thanks for any help.
Here is how to supply your own posters: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220677-Local-Media-Assets-Movies
Unfortunately, there is no way to instruct Plex to use them primarily - without also preferring embedded metadata.
(If you have .mp4/ .m4v files, these can contain embedded meta tags. They often contain wrong data, so the movie is displayed wrong within Plex or, worse, even gets recognised as a completely different movie.)
If you have no embedded metadata in your files or you can make sure they are all correct, do this:
Settings - Server - Agents - Movies - Plex Movie
drag the line ‘Local Media Assets’ to the topmost spot in the list
repeat the same under
Settings - Server - Agents - Movies - TheMovieDatabase
With a correctly named poster.jpg in place, perform the Plex Dance with one movie to see the effect of the change.
Funny you say that as a copy of the cover is also muxed into the MKV file of the movie too, as habitat I’ve always done this, chapters too via toolnix.
I’ll try to rename a few as poster.jpg and see what it does.
@JOHN said:
Funny you say that as a copy of the cover is also muxed into the MKV file of the movie too,
Plex doesn’t read metadata from mkv files.
Just from mp4 / m4v files.
If you only have mkv files, it is safe to make the above metioned adjustment.
(Although it is the default in Plex. If Plex didn’t pick up your posters vefore, they were either not named right. Or you only added the poster file after the movie has already been added into the library. That won’t work. The poster must be present from the start to get selected automatically.)
I see a request coming then. How do I request this action as mkv is all I have in a vast collection?
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JOHN said:
Funny you say that as a copy of the cover is also muxed into the MKV file of the movie too,
Plex doesn’t read metadata from mkv files.
Just from mp4 / m4v files.
If you only have mkv files, it is safe to make the above metioned adjustment.
(Although it is the default in Plex. If Plex didn’t pick up your posters vefore, they were either not named right. Or you only added the poster file after the movie has already been added into the library. That won’t work. The poster must be present from the start to get selected automatically.)
I always ad the completed final folder to Plex. Maybe I’ll delete the library then add the entire thing again some time I’m away for a day or so.
@JOHN said:
I see a request coming then. How do I request this action as mkv is all I have in a vast collection?
I don’t understand the question.
It was sort of a joke, but I was thinking, who do I talk to to suggest that Plex in future, scan within MKV files also. !
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JOHN said:
I see a request coming then. How do I request this action as mkv is all I have in a vast collection?
I don’t understand the question.
@JOHN said:
It was sort of a joke, but I was thinking, who do I talk to to suggest that Plex in future, scan within MKV files also. !
Ah, gotcha. 
There is an existing feature request for this. Just click ‘Like’ on it:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/212945/support-mpeg-ts-or-mkv-metadata
Thanks for all your help!
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OttoKerner answered your question: Movie Covers
JOHN said:
It was sort of a joke, but I was thinking, who do I talk to to suggest that Plex in future, scan within MKV files also. !
Ah, gotcha.
There is an existing feature request for this. Just click ‘Like’ on it:
So I did a complete once over for all my collection making sure every title had the cover named correctly. I deleted the movies list, optimized data base, cleaned bundles, deleted old files. Rebooted. Added new library for movies. It only chose my cover occasionally and picked its own choice for the majority.
