I have many documentaries that are rather like movies. How best to post them in PLEX . . . as a “Movies” library or as “Other Videos”? I do not want PLEX to search for, or insert, any art/posters it might find on the internet, so I am taking the time to create my own “posters/covers” and then to insert them into the files using MP3Tag.
I have the same question about a number of “theatrical productions” that I want to post. Here, too, I have inserted my own created posters into each file. These files also have subtitles, which I add as a “side-car” file. Is it best to post them as a “Movies” library or “Other Videos”?
I am unclear as to whether there is any meaningful difference between the two.
Movies and other Videos differ only in the Agent.
If you take a ‘movies’ library and change the default agent to ‘Personal VIdeo’, you have suddenly an ‘Other Videos’ library.
There is one major difference though: as soon as you make Personal Videos the default agent, many Plex clients switch the Poster format from portrait to landscape format.
You need to keep that in mind when preparing your custom artwork.
There is another detail, which may be important:
You can also change the ‘Scanner’ Plex uses for a library.
If you use the ‘Plex Movie Scanner’, you can use local extras for your movies, but the naming of your files must follow the stricter rules for movies.
(which means, avoiding filenames ending in part1 for instance, see https://support.plex.tv/articles/200264966-naming-multi-file-movies/ )
Yes, I have noticed that PLEX sometimes takes my self-created vertical-rectangular art/posters and turns them sideways as horizontal-rectangular posters. This, of course, does not look good because they were created for a different configuration. I tend to believe this happens when I use the same “course-level” poster and insert them as cover art in each segment file by using MP3Tag.
I can create new horizontal posters to insert into each segment, but how then do I get a vertical “course-level” poster to be found and used? (The truth is, I am not sure I even need the “segment-level” art.)
I told you, this happens when you set the library to use the ‘Personal Video’ agent as its default agent.
You can’t change the posters back to vertical orientation unless you change the library’s default agent away from ‘Personal Video’.
Thanks Otto. My english is getting worse…I have seen that in the category of personal videos there is not a vertical poster but the horizontal fanart as happens with netflix. There is no way to put the landascape display or maybe it is planned for the future, as is the case for unfinished films
Sorry, I still don’t understand.
What is the intention?
Do you want movie posters generally to be in landscape orientation? And if so, why? The orientation of most movie posters is in ‘portrait’.
There are no posters available in ‘landscape’ for many movies, so if you would define ‘landscape’ as the default poster orientation, you’d end up with many empty slots.
